Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Wrightsboro, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Wrightsboro who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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