- Worldwide Attack on Methadone
From multiple NIBMY fights coast to coast in the US, to Scotland's movement to "Free the Underclass from this Trading of One Addiction for another" MMT is under attack throughout the western world.
- HBO's "Methadonia"
Sham Negroponte documentary puts MMT in crisis. "...this film will destroy lives, figurateively and literally, What a needless, senseless, shameful tragedy!" Robert Newman, M.D.
- Rhode Island's MOM Program
Over 100 participants attended the Methadone Trends and Treatment: Pregnancy and the Newborn Seminar sponsored by Kent Hosptial and the Mothers On Methadone Program in Warwick, Rhode Island on December 6, 2005.
- Is there No Screening to Ensure that Providers Know What They Are Doing?
The answer ro my rhetorical question is "obviously not" if the comments reported in a recent article on a new California Aegis Clinic opening be typical. Now this is an operation that claims ownership of over twenty clinics in California, so their effect on the lives of patients is considerable.
- Language at the Root of Stigma
NAMA Norcal chapter Leader and NAMA Board Member Roxanne Baker has originated and led a campaign against the improper use of language in addiction treatment that goes back nearly a decade. That continued hard work as "NAMA's Lanuguage Police" is paying off, as now government agencies involved in addiction reach and treatment are finally realizing the importantce that languagE plays in the continuing stigma born by MMT and other addiction treatment modalities. Read some of the examples from the new campaign.
- RI NAMA Advocate Jim Gillen Given Prestigious Jefferson Award
The Jefferson Awards are prestigious national honors that recognize individuals throught the United States who preform great public service, largely without recognition. This year one of our own was honored, Rhode Island NAMA advocate James Gillen. And he deserves it.
- Methadone & Pregnancy Info Forum
Indefatigueable New England NAMA advocate Sharon Dembinski, RN, MS, PNP, CMA originator of the Kent Hospital MOM Program featured on page 4, is the moderator of a new info and support online form about pregnancy and methadone at: www.MethadoneSupport.org/Pregnancy.html
- Massachusetts NAMA Active on Multiple Fronts
Multiple Massachusetts NAMA members were on hand when colleague Paul Bowman, CMA, a member of the Massachusetts Dept of Public Health Consumer Advisory Board, gave a presentation on methadone treatment to this board. Many members stAted they never knew about the science behind methadone treatment and thought MMT made patients "high".
- NAMA - On The Road
This new chapter of NAMA is for patients who have to travel for a living or just want to travel.
- Erica Lear Analyzes Distinction Between Dependence and Addiction
There is a significant distinction between "addiction" and "dependence." Ericka Lear explains the differences for you.
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