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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Ryegate who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven 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 activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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