Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - De Ruyter, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in De Ruyter who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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