Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Navesink, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Navesink who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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