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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Pursglove who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors 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.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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