Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - York, ME.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in York who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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