Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Spring Brook, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Spring Brook who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused 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 neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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