Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Blount, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Blount who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors 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 must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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