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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Winslow who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates 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.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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