Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Oak Island, MN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Oak Island who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

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

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