Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Paradise, MT.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Paradise who are dependent on 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 behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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