Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Mary Esther, FL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Mary Esther who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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