Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Callender, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Callender who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking 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 and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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