Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Du Quoin, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Du Quoin who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction because 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 neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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