Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Lee Center, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Lee Center who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox 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 will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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