Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Fort Kent Mills, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Fort Kent Mills who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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