Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Prospect, CT.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Prospect who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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