Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Doniphan, NE.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Doniphan who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates 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.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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