Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Coon Rapids, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Coon Rapids who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons 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.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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