Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Sublimity, OR.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Sublimity who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

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

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