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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Ripley who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons 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 dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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