Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Pipestem, WV.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Pipestem who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same 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 enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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