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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Woodson who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to 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 powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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