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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Wolfcreek who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same 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.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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