Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Silverdale, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Silverdale who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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