Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Northrop, MN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Northrop who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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