Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Stevensville, MT.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Stevensville 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 concept is that individuals 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. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons 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 must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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