Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Sedgwick, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Sedgwick who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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