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We have understood HIV transmission for years. The routes are obvious, limited, and modifiable, yet HIV seroprevalence has steadily increased around the world. There have been only limited medical advances in the treatment of HIV-related illness. Because of a lack of federal leadership on all fronts, from funding to discrimination, misguided research priorities at the…
These facts were important, of course, to Dole and Nyswander, but were completely crucial in their long battle to get government to go along with the idea of methadone maintenance. Government reflects Americans practical tendency as well as its moralistic, judgmental tendency, and in this case the practical tendency can out on top. Government allowed…
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Advocacy The National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery (NAMA-R) holds the view that every individual who believes in Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) is at least a potential Certified MAT Advocate (CMA). We encourage all supporters of MAT, patient and non-patient, to become Certified MAT Advocates so that all energies directed toward the advancement of…
Note On This Page Admission Requirements Homes Take Home Exceptions (a) The Food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration recognize that the investigational use of methadone requiring the prolonged maintenance of narcotic dependence as part of a total treatment effort has shown promise in the management and rehabilitation of selected narcotic addicts. It…
Nominations Open for the 2022 Richard Lane/Robert Holden Advocacy Award! May 1, 2022 Richard Lane was a long-term heroin user who, upon release from prison in 1967, was instrumental in establishing one of the Nation’s first opioid treatment programs. In 1974, he became the Executive Director of Man Alive and later served as Vice President…
SUMMARY Methadone prescribing increased tenfold in the last four years in Belgium. This has been made possible through involvement of general practitioners in methadone treatment. Drug overdoses, crime and even presence of methadone on the black market have decreased at the same time. Introduction During the last four years, methadone consumption in Belgium increased tenfold…
