Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Sutherland, NE.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Sutherland who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors 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.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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