Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Winchester, OR.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Winchester who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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