Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Champlain, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Champlain who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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