Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Washington, NH.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Washington who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 replacement 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 logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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