Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Randalia, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Randalia who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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