Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - East Waterboro, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in East Waterboro who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same 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.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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