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Tennessee/NW Georgia Chapter of the National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery And we believe in the 5 goals of NAMA-R: To eliminate discrimination toward methadone patients. To create a more positive image about methadone maintenance treatment. To help preserve patient’s dignity and their rights. To make treatment available on demand to every person who needs…
Joe Neuberger, Delaware NAMA James DePasquale, Long Beach Patient Committee This roundtable examined the practice of “administrative detoxification” from programs, and explored the conflicts between what programs often perceive as a necessary evil and patients often perceive as a source of anxiety and constant threat to their treatment. Should administrative detox even be program policy…
Not just in substance abuse, mental health, and AIDS services do methadone patients face routine discrimination. San Francisco MUNI will not allow methadone patients to drive its buses, even though an important legal ruling in New York overturned a similar policy (Beazer vs New York City Transit Authority, 1975). Not just in those instances but…
Workshop Wednesday, October 10th Past Present and Future: A Selection of Unfinished Business in Methadone Treatment Moderator, Howard Lotsof, NAMA Acting Membership Director Gary Nessenbaum, Washington Advocates for Methadone Maintenance (President). The Patients’ Perspectives on the Changes in the Methadone Treatment System. Carmen Pearman, NAMA Regional Director and The MAG of Indiana (President). Tapering –…
NAMA is an organization composed of methadone patients and health care professionals that are supporters of quality opiate agonist treatment. We have thousands of members worldwide with a network of international affiliated organizations and chapters in many places in the United States. The primary objective of NAMA is to advocate for the patient in treatment…
Not just in substance abuse, mental health, and AIDS services do methadone patients face routine discrimination. San Francisco MUNI will not allow methadone patients to drive its buses, even though an important legal ruling in New York overturned a similar policy (Beazer vs New York City Transit Authority, 1975). Not just in those instances but…