Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - North Windham, CT.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in North Windham who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging 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 detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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