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UNM Psychiatric Center
ASAP Opioid Treatment Program

What can you expect?
  • You will be seen by a medical doctor and provided with information about heroin detoxification (slowly getting off heroin with the use of legally prescribed medication that eases the withdrawal systems).


  • You will be provided with information about replacing heroin with daily methadone maintenance or another replacement therapy called buprenorphine.


  • You will receive counseling and case management.


  • You will also receive careful follow-up to make sure the treatment is working.


  • There are many stories about methadone that are not correct:
    Methodone: Truth or Fiction
           
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