Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Comstock, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Comstock who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox 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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