Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Nicholville, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Nicholville who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to 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 replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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