Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Kewaunee, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Kewaunee who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was caused 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 activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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