Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Warwick, MD.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Warwick who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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