Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Oakland, MD.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Oakland who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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