Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Irvington, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Irvington who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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