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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Ringsted who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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