Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Woodbury, VT.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Woodbury who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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