Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Battlement Mesa, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Battlement Mesa who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to 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 effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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