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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Browning who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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