Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - King, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in King who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural 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.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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