Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Quinwood, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Quinwood who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons 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 have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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