Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Mount Lookout, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Mount Lookout who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

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

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