Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Coal Valley, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Coal Valley who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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