Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Murray, ID.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Murray who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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