Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Allakaket, AK.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Allakaket who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking 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 successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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