Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Chuathbaluk, AK.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Chuathbaluk who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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