Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Eagle, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Eagle who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities 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 and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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