Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Scipio Center, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Scipio Center who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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