Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Lafayette, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Lafayette who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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