Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Honeoye Falls, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Honeoye Falls who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to 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 effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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