Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Shawnee Mission, KS.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Shawnee Mission who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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