Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - North Stratford, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in North Stratford who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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