Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Eagle River, AK.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Eagle River who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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