Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Tallmansville, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Tallmansville who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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