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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Mendon who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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