Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Basalt, ID.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Basalt who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking 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 successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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