Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Short Hills, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Short Hills who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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