Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Cimarron, NM.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Cimarron who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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