Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Ponce De Leon, MO.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Ponce De Leon who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people 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. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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