Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Ruskin, NE.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Ruskin who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms 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, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging 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 detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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