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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Rice who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

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

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