Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Orland, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Orland who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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