Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Spruce Head, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Spruce Head who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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