Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Boulder, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Boulder who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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