Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Shoshone, ID.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Shoshone who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors 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.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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