Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Laurens, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Laurens who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need 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 programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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