Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Jefferson, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Jefferson who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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