Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Red Cliff, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Red Cliff who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like 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.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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