Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Weber City, VA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Weber City who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior 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 neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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