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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Whittington who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors 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 involved in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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