Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Oak Hill, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Oak Hill who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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