Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Ocean, NJ.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Ocean who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction because 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 neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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