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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Highland who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons 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.

People involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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