Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Rye, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Rye who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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