Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Lempster, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Lempster who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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