Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Pleasant Hill, MO.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Pleasant Hill who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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