Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Dodson, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Dodson who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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