Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Estes Park, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Estes Park who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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