Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Lake City, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Lake City who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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