Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - North Salem, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in North Salem who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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