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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Searles 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 people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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