Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Clear Creek, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Clear Creek who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural 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 must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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