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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Saugerties who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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