Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Loose Creek, MO.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Loose Creek who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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