Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Pleasant Valley, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Pleasant Valley who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to 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 successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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