Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Moorhead, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Moorhead who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which 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 every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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