Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Lanesville, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Lanesville who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which 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.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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