Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Forest City, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Forest City who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that individuals 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. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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