Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Broadus, MT.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Broadus who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates 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 must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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