Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Thompson, CT.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Thompson who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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