Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Culdesac, ID.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Culdesac 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 clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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