Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Golden, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Golden who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to 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 substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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