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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Granville who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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