Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Amawalk, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Amawalk who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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