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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Ridgway who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients 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. However, people starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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