Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Flossmoor, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Flossmoor who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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