Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Delphi, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Delphi 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 engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is known to be far 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 because detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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