Letter

Education Series Number 10 June 2004 The New Federal Regulations What Do They Mean for Patients? Methadone treatment in the U.S. is changing before our eyes. Some of this change has been rapid; some of it will take years or decades. Some patients have heard about new federal regulations, including an end to automatic dose…

Number 1 Methadone Maintenance and Patient Self AdvocacyBy Arlene Ford (March, 1991). Number 2 Drug Policy in the Age of AIDS – The Philosophy of Harm ReductionBy Rod Sorge (April, 1991). Number 3 Myths About Methadone By Emmett Velten (March, 1992). Number 4 Methadone, HIV Infection, and Immune FunctionBy Herman Joseph (August, 1994). Number 5…

New York City Many of you may not know who Ira was but to those who knew him from his writings and articles that appeared in many of our affiliates newsletters he was special. In many ways he was the typical patient who had been “hood winked” by the misinformation and negative barrage about methadone….

NAMA at National Methadone Conference – AMTA 2001 Wednesday, October 10th 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 – The Last Ten Milligrams. Jo…

Telling The Untold Methadone Success Stories This Treatment Works “There may be no more effective way to contain heroin abuse than methadone, a drug that blocks an addict’s craving. Yet new efforts to expand use of methadone have inspired new attacks on it, attacks that deny common sense.“ -The New York Times, April 8, 1990…