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What is methadone treatment for opiate addiction?

April 26, 2017addiction methadone opiate treatment

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What is methadone treatment for opiate addiction?

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Methadone treatment provides the chronic opiate dependent person with health, social and rehabilitational services, and medically prescribed methadone to relieve withdrawal symptoms, reduce opiate craving, and allow normalization of the body’s function. Methadone treatment has been the most widely studied approach to opiate addiction and has been in use effectively for over thirty-five years.