Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Heart Butte, MT.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Heart Butte who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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