Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Wilkinson, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Wilkinson who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was brought on 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 which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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