Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Iron River, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Iron River who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using 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 and stimulates the same neural 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 therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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