Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Oak Lawn, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Oak Lawn who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

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

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