Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Rapids City, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Rapids City who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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