Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Amherst, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Amherst 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 people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to 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 receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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