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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Keystone who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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