Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Glen Cove, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Glen Cove who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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