Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Fox River Grove, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Fox River Grove who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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