Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Colburn, ID.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Colburn who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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