Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Spencertown, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Spencertown who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and 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.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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