Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Tinley Park, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Tinley Park who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven 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 neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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