Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Lone Tree, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Lone Tree who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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