Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Alligator, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Alligator who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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