Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Buena, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Buena who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons 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.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily 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. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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