Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Topawa, AZ.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Topawa who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like 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 powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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