Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Macon, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Macon who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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