Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Inver Grove Heights, MN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Inver Grove Heights who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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