Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Grace, ID.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Grace who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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