Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Cambridge, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Cambridge who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural 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.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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