Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Big Arm, MT.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Big Arm who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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