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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Trail who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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