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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Gifford who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and 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 prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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