Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Dunes City, OR.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Dunes City who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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