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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Levelland who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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