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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Weld who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like 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 powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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