Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Fairview, OH.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Fairview who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities 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 which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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