Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Richland, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Richland who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to 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 replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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