Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Palm Coast, FL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Palm Coast who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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