Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Walpole, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Walpole who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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