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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Marine who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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