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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Greenwood who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like 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 successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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