Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Kittitas, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Kittitas who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates 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 enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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