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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Muscoda who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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