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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Schleswig who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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