Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Newfoundland, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Newfoundland who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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