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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Farmington who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and 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.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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