Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Fernwood, ID.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Fernwood who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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