Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Gilmore City, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Gilmore City who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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