Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Rockford, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Rockford who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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