Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Arkansaw, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Arkansaw who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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