Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - South Orleans, MA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in South Orleans who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven 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 and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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