Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Balsam Lake, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Balsam Lake who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy 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 find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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