Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Amherstdale, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Amherstdale who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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