Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Brown Deer, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Brown Deer who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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