Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Mexican Springs, NM.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Mexican Springs who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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