Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Limestone, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Limestone who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance should know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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