Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Galloway, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Galloway who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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