Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Sugar Grove, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Sugar Grove who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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