Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Bernardsville, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Bernardsville who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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