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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Kiowa who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on 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 high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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