Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Kinross, MI.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Kinross who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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