Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Axtell, UT.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Axtell who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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