Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Rochester, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Rochester who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates 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 powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox 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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