Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Pampa, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Pampa who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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