Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Alpine, AZ.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Alpine who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused 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 and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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