Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Fertile, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Fertile who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like 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 powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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