Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - South Wales, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in South Wales who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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