Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Mansfield, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Mansfield who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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