Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Larned, KS.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Larned who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused 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 which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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