Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Middletown, MO.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Middletown who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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