Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Highland, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Highland who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven 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 neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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