Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Saco, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Saco who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered 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 and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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