Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Indian Springs, NV.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Indian Springs who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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