Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Waunakee, WI.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Waunakee who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same 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 daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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