Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Holliday, MO.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Holliday who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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