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• Why Methadone?
• What Is Methadone?
• Why Use ACT's Clinics?
• Using Methadone

Rapid detox is expensive and experimental. They’ll put you under a general anesthetic for six hours. You’ll be injected with Naltrexone and you’ll go through intense withdrawal. The idea is that you’re unconscious for the worst part of the withdrawal. When you wake up you’ll still be suffering from withdrawal and you’ll have to keep taking the Naltrexone.

That sounds like it’s not that bad. Why doesn’t everyone do a rapid detox?

The biggest problem is that you have not changed any of the habits that got you into using in the first place. Long-term Methadone use gives you the time you need to “get it together” with your relationships, job, living situation, and drug habit. Many people who do rapid detox or “cold turkey” go right back to using because they return to the same lifestyle they were trying to escape.

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