Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Northumberland, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Northumberland who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved 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 symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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