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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Florissant who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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