Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Sand Springs, MT.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Sand Springs who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction since 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 neurons 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 have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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