Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Ravena, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Ravena who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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