Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Northfield, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Northfield who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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