Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Westley, CA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Westley who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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