Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Sciota, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Sciota 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 individuals are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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