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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Unity who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates 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.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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