Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Ceredo, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Ceredo who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is known to be way 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 since detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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