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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Minoa who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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