Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Trout Lake, WA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Trout Lake who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance ought to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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