Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - North Monmouth, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in North Monmouth who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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