Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Port Alexander, AK.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Port Alexander who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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