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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Earlham who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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