Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Troy, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Troy who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking 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 and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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