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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Perry who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered 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. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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