Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - North Haverhill, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in North Haverhill who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to 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 substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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