Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Glasco, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Glasco who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities 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 stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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