Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Moultonborough, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Moultonborough 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 overall idea is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates 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 involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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