Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Marathon, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Marathon who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was driven 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 neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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