Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Mirror Lake, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Mirror Lake who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using 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 and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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