Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Decatur, MI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Decatur who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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