Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Briaroaks, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Briaroaks who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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