Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Waterville, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Waterville who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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