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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Plainview who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction because 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. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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