Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Roxbury, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Roxbury who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was brought on 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 and activates the same receptors 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 therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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