Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Genoa, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Genoa who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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