Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Fort Fairfield, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Fort Fairfield who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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