Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Toledo, OR.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Toledo who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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