Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Sheldon Springs, VT.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Sheldon Springs who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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