Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Biwabik, MN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Biwabik who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

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

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