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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Ridgeway who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities 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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