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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Vestal who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction due to 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 neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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