Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Smiths Creek, MI.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Smiths Creek who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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