Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Arden Hills, MN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Arden Hills who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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