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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Tualatin who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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