Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Brooklyn Center, MN.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Brooklyn Center who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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