Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Mellenville, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Mellenville who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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