A person addicted to heroin went through the following treatment to stop his drug abuse: a doctor gradually replaced his daily heroin dosage
with the legal drug methadone.
What kind of treatment is this?
This is a type of maintenance therapy that is used usually at the beginning of the treatment. Methadone is also opioid which means that is addictive but it is not the same as heroin.
Methadone is also bad, but it is safer for patients, it is taken orally, it is not injected as heroin so it cannot lead patients to various diseases such as HIV. Another different and good thing is that there is no need for the crime of stealing when it comes to methadone.
This type of therapy is used as a beginning of the treatment because there is no other way when a person is heavily addicted. After this, there is detoxication, which is a hard treatment for heroin addicts but it can lead to healing.
