Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Livingston, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Livingston who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was caused 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 which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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