Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Castle Creek, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Castle Creek who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates 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 other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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