Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Beverly, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Beverly who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using 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 which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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