Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - McLaughlin, SD.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in McLaughlin who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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