Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Sugar Hill, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Sugar Hill who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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