Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Guthrie Center, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Guthrie Center who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that people 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 symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors 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.

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

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