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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Salkum who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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