Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Franklin, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Franklin who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior 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 which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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