Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Jasper, MO.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Jasper who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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