Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Granite City, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Granite City who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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