Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Castle Rock, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Castle Rock who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on 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 neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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