Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Hesperus, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Hesperus who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing 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 which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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