Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Marcus, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Marcus who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons 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 have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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