Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Lodge Grass, MT.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Lodge Grass who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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