Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Iuka, KS.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Iuka who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction since 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 neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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