Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Thayer, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Thayer who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates 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 involved in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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