Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - St. Olaf, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in St. Olaf who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior 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 and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy 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 alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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