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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Millhousen who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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