Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Fruitland, ID.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Fruitland who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox 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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