Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Akin, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Akin who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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