Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Harborside, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Harborside who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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