Addiction Treatment Outpatient

As an Opioid heroin use escalates as the body's tolerance for the drug increases. The increased tolerance is the cause of many overdose deaths given that the heroin user may be injecting 3 to 5 times the lethal dose in order to maintain their high. Rapid detoxification from high tolerance heroin use is extremely dangerous and can be fatal. Relapse for a heroin user after some period of absence can be fatal as their tolerance level is no longer present and the same amount used during their last episode prior to a period abstinence will often kill the consumer.