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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Huttonsville who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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