Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Maryneal, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Maryneal who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to 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 involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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