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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Juliaetta who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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