Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Milroy, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Milroy who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to 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 successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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