Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Harper, OR.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Harper who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like 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 powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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