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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in South Roxana who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it 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 difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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