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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Hume who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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