Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Crawford, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Crawford who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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