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Major Cities in Maine with Drug Rehab and Treatment Centers:
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Drug Rehab Maine
is here to help people with drug and/or alcohol abuse problems in Maine. find treatment options. Due to our diverse networking system we can find a treatment option tailored to each individuals specific situation and needs. We are able to provide all phases of recovery included but not limited to, alcohol and/or drug intervention, drug and/or alcohol detox, in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, short term treatment (30 days or less), long term treatment (90 days or longer).
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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in Maine. At Drug Rehab Maine we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in Maine, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in Maine. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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We realize that each individual in Maine. is in a different financial situation and we will find treatment options for each individual regardless of their financial situation. No matter what your financial situation everyone will receive the treatment help they are looking for.
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Maine young addict 'one of the lucky ones'LAMOINE, Maine — Jan Huebner checked on her son once a week to make sure he was still alive. She'd find him in Ellsworth, Maine motel rooms, Mount Desert Island campgrounds. He was cold, dirty, shooting up heroin every four hours.
"I knew Robbie's days were numbered," Huebner says. "So many young people around Ellsworth, Maine have died of drug overdoses. I was afraid he'd be next."
Her son, Robbie Harriman, started smoking marijuana at 16. A year later, he tried LSD and then prescription drugs. A doctor prescribed OxyContin to Harriman after he suffered severe burns from falling into a campfire when he was 18.
"I was in love," he remembers of his first OxyContin dose. "I felt numb all over. Warm and fuzzy."
Within a few months, he was snorting Oxycontin, looking for a more potent high. He took doses that cost him $100 a day. "I'd get sick if I didn't have it," he says. "I'd go 12 hours and my body would ache and hurt."
He quit school and sold anything he could to buy more OxyContin: his car, his mini-fridge, his microwave, the college savings bonds his grandfather bought him.
In January, his friends suggested a cheaper high: heroin. He started selling the drug with his buddy. They drove to Massachusetts every week to buy more. "We'd get 10 grams, sell half and do half," Harriman says.
Worried about her son's influence on her 11-year-old daughter, Huebner asked him to leave. Kicked out of his house, Harriman slept in motels and eventually the woods. He shot up heroin every couple of hours, trying to ward off withdrawal.
"I was pretty much a zombie," he says. "It was all about getting another fix. It got so bad I'd have to get my needle ready before I went to sleep because when I woke up, I'd be shaking so bad I couldn't fill the needle."
In early summer, he started wishing he'd die. He hoped he'd overdose to end the powerful cravings that ruled his life.
"It got so bad, I saw death as the only way out," Harriman says.
His mother feared her son would get his wish.
"I knew there was nothing I could do until he wanted help," Huebner says. Huebner herself made that decision 15 years ago, when she quit drinking alcohol and using cocaine.
"I wanted to shake Robbie out of his addiction. I was angry. Hurt. But I knew he had to reach his own bottom. All I could do was wait and hope that he'd reach out to me."
Every three or four days, her son called to tell her where he was. There were times, he didn't phone. Huebner dialed motels frantically, searching for him.
Eventually, he'd call and she'd visit him at a motel room in Ellsworth, Maine or a campground on Mount Desert Island. Often, she find him dozing off, sleepy from another heroin fix. His face grew so thin it reminded her of a skeleton.
"I'd tell myself, I'm not going to see him anymore. I can't look at him like this."
But then a few days passed and Huebner was consumed with worry. "Was Robbie dead? Dying? Hurt?"
For six months, through winter, spring and half the summer, she continued to visit her son. She watched him grow thinner, paler. And during every visit, she'd ask: "Have you had enough? Do you want help?"
When he'd shrug her off, she'd leave. She always left crying but never without telling him: "I love you."
"I never wanted to leave angry because I didn't know if that would be the last time I'd see Robbie," she says.
Her son told her not to worry. "I'll be fine, mom," he'd say. "I love you, too."
On July 31, Huebner's phone rang at 5 p.m. It was her son.
"Mom, I need help," he said calling from a campground. "Will you take me to the hospital?"
Huebner cried as she drove to pick up her son. "I felt it in my heart," she says.
But she would learn that even though her son wanted help, it would be difficult to find in rural Maine. The salary Huebner made as a personal exercise trainer and her husband made as an arborist did not matter.
In Hancock County, there are no detox centers, no methadone clinics, no long-term residential beds for young addicts.
Huebner first took her son to Maine Coast Memorial in Ellsworth, Maine, but there was little the staff could do. "They couldn't detox him but they gave Robbie some medication for vomiting and the diarrhea," Huebner says.
For the next 36 hours, he thrashed in his bed. His mother put blankets on him and then took them off. She watched her son shake, sweat, and shiver with chills.
"It's like having the flu only 10 times worse," Harriman says. "I thought I was dying."
Overwhelmed, Huebner took breaks from caring for her son. She laid down outside his room and cried.
"It was inhumane, so hard to watch him in such pain," Huebner says. "I thought I was going to either pass out or vomit."
After 36 hours, Huebner and a local drug counselor found Harriman a bed at Mercy Recovery Center in Westbrook. The clinic was three hours away, the only place in the state that offered him help.
He stayed for three days and was immediately put on Seboxone, a drug that subdues the cravings and withdrawal symptoms from opiates like OxyContin and heroin.
"After a few days I was feeling so good, I was running up and down the hallway," Harriman says."
He now has completed a 28-day residential drug addiction program and a 10-week counseling session at Open Door Recovery Center in Ellsworth, Maine. Every night, he attends a self-help group with his mother.
He thinks about his future, about pursuing his high school diploma, figuring out what career to choose. But thoughts about OxyContin and heroin also linger.
"A lot of my friends, a lot of kids around Ellsworth, Maine are still using," he says. "There's still a lot of temptation. I still think of heroin and the first time I shot it up.
"But I know I don't want to use again. It began as something fun. Then somewhere it went to hell and I never thought I'd make it back."
His mother calls her son's recovery a miracle.
"He's one of the lucky ones," she says. "There are a lot of kids around here that aren't so lucky. Robbie had a team of angels on his side."
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