Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Shelter Island, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Shelter Island who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction since 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 receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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