Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Key Biscayne, FL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Key Biscayne who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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