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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Sullivan who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people 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 and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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