Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Augusta, WI.

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

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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