Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - La Rose, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in La Rose who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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