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

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

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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