Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Mount Hope, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Mount Hope who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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