Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Center Lovell, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Center Lovell who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors 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 involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day 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. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on 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 relapse rates are very high.

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