Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Rumney, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Rumney who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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