Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Woodrow, CO.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Woodrow 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 clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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