Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Mesa, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Mesa who are dependent and 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 engaged in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors 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 on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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