It is important to provide methadone maintenance for those people who really need that treatment.

The duration of methadone maintenance can be for months or even years.

Currently, he said, Federal and state officials spend most of their dollars on methadone maintenance, making it difficult for drug users to try anything else.

You have every right to argue for expanding methadone maintenance which, incidentally, we also support.

She also helped to establish methadone maintenance as a significant treatment for heroin abuse.

Though the city is in the middle of a crack epidemic, it said, most treatment slots were still for methadone maintenance.

There are still long waits for addicts who want methadone maintenance.

Chemical dependency experts say methadone maintenance is a good medical treatment.

Or, they are people who want to come off methadone maintenance.

But advocates of methadone maintenance say the problems plaguing participants have little to do with the program or their time in it.