Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Sandown, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Sandown who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. 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 abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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