Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Hartsel, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Hartsel who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form 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 behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which 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 prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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