Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Hopedale, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Hopedale who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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