Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Drake, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Drake who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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