Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Great Lakes, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Great Lakes who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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