Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Redgranite, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Redgranite who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons 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.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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