Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Saddle River, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Saddle River who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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