Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - East Granby, CT.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in East Granby who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies 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 involved in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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