Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Lafox, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Lafox who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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