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Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Higgins Lake, MI.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Higgins Lake who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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