Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Elnora, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Elnora who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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