Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Rice Lake, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Rice Lake who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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