Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Ponemah, MN.

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

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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