Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - New Burnside, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in New Burnside who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons 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.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered way 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 because detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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