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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Skowhegan who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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