Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Iron Mountain, MI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Iron Mountain who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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