Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Wilsondale, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Wilsondale who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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