Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Ash Fork, AZ.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Ash Fork who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior 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 neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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