Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - East Dennis, MA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in East Dennis who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same 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.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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