Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Cornish, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Cornish who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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