Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Uniontown, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Uniontown who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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