Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Cheboygan, MI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Cheboygan who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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