Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Mystic, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Mystic who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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