Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - What Cheer, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in What Cheer who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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