Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Brookneal, VA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Brookneal who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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