Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Buffalo Prairie, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Buffalo Prairie who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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