Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Richland, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Richland who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using activities 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 stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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