Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Cape May, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Cape May who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking 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 which stimulates the same neural 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 involved in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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