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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Riverside 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 clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused 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 stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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