Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Cleverdale, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Cleverdale who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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