Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Felts Mills, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Felts Mills who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons 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.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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