Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Parkland, FL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Parkland who are dependent and 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 wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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