Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Almond, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Almond who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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