Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Redmond, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Redmond who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction due to 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 neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

For All Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities In Redmond, Click Here.