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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Stanton who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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