Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Manley Hot Springs, AK.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Manley Hot Springs who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox 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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