For more than 50 years, methadone’s use as an opiate addiction treatment has helped chronic opiate users overcome the pull of addiction. Methadone can be used during detox treatment as well as a long-term maintenance therapy. According to the University of Maryland, methadone exists as a synthetic opiate medication, producing many of the same effects ….
Methadone, one of the very first medication therapies developed to treat opiate addiction, offers a range of benefits for people coming off long-term opiate addictions. According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, methadone’s therapeutic benefits include: Relief from opiate withdrawal effects Relief from persistent drug cravings Increased potential for long-term abstinence Once the ….
As the first government-approved medication therapy for opiate addiction treatment, methadone has a 50-plus year track record as an effective opiate addiction treatment. According to the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, methadone, a synthetic opiate drug, works well at relieving the cravings and withdrawal effects experienced in recovery. In effect, methadone acts as a ….
Methadone is a synthetic agonist opioid used in maintenance therapies to assist individuals in their recovery efforts from other opioid drugs. The benefits of methadone maintenance exceed the risks for most and according to the University of Texas Medical School at Houston “It is currently the most successful treatment for chronic opioid dependence, although not ….
Methadone is a synthetic opioid used in the United States as a treatment for opioid addictions in opioid detoxification and maintenance programs. In more recent years, it has become a principle analgesic drug intended for use in the treatment of chronic and severe pain. Methadone has restrictions in prescribing practices for the treatment of opioid ….
Methadone dependence for many individuals has become a byproduct of dependence on other opioids and for some it has become a primary drug of choice. Although methadone used in treatments for opioid addictions should not be considered a substitute drug, the fact remains that many opioid users will alternate between methadone and other opioids when ….
Methadone is a synthetic opioid that has been associated with treatments for heroin addictions since the 1970’s. In the late 1990’s, methadone’s clinical use as a prescription painkiller increased rapidly and improper use and abuse of this drug continues to raise concerns. According to the World Health Organization, “The notion that drug dependence could be ….
Opiate dependencies and addictions have been continuously soaring, despite the efforts to control widespread distributions of heroin and the overabundant prescribing practices and diversions involving opiate painkillers. Unfortunately, as the availability of one drug decreases, another one takes its place and many opiate abusers are alternating or switching to the more potent heroin versions as ….
Changing lives for those who are dependent on opioids is what methadone maintenance therapy is all about. Detoxification from short-acting opioids like heroin and prescription painkillers is generally not enough to promote long-term abstinence as these drugs have powerful, and in some ways, predictable, properties that change brain functions and neurobiological systems that are influential ….
Methadone clinics have helped thousands of people dependent on opiates achieve their treatment goals, but, for the thousands of others needing this help, methadone treatments provided in the clinics have been, traditionally, unavailable or unobtainable due to the clinic locations and treatment costs. With an epidemic rise in individuals needing treatment for prescription painkillers and ….
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