Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Steuben, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Steuben who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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