Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Valdez, AK.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Valdez who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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