Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Reinbeck, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Reinbeck who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to 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.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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