Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - North Pole, AK.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in North Pole who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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