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Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Prairie View, KS.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Prairie View who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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