is a rehabilitation therapy which ensures previous heroin addicts are prescribed methadone on a daily basis and then slowly weaned off methadone leaving them 'clean'.
METHADONE MAINTENANCE THERAPY: "Individuals who require help leaving heroin are sometimes put in the methadone maintenance therapy program, where doses of methadone which are decreased replace the daily fix of heroin."
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "METHADONE MAINTENANCE THERAPY," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 7, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/methadone-maintenance-therapy/ (accessed March 23, 2023).
