Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Chittenango, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Chittenango who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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