Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Prospect, VA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Prospect who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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