Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Winthrop, NY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Winthrop who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged 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 activates 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.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it 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. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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