Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - New Auburn, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in New Auburn who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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