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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Dryden who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know 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 accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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