Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Birney, MT.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Birney who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion 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 symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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