Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Frenchton, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Frenchton who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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