Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Shelbyville, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Shelbyville who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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