Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Green Valley, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Green Valley who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same 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 have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance should realize 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 since detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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