Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Browning, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Browning who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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