Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Powell Butte, OR.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Powell Butte who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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