Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - South Elgin, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in South Elgin who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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