Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Pomfret, CT.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Pomfret who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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