Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Colfax, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Colfax who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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