Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Epping, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Epping who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept 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. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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