Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Lake View, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Lake View who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons 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.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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