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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Wallace who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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