Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Centerville, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Centerville who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural 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.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know 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 detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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