Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Hanover Park, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Hanover Park who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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