Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Weeping Water, NE.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Weeping Water who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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