Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Campbell Hill, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Campbell Hill who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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