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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Kimberly who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates 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.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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