Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Burgoon, OH.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Burgoon who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven 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 stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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