Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Ocean City, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Ocean City who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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