Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Fox Valley, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Fox Valley who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it 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 programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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