Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Maunie, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Maunie who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior 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 which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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