Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Orange, MA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Orange who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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