Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Garwin, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Garwin who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was brought on 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 and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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