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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Lewis who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking 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 successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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