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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Osseo who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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