Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Butner, NC.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Butner who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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