Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Alstead, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Alstead who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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