Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Echo, UT.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Echo who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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