Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Wedron, IL.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Wedron who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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