Get Ready for National Recovery Month in September

Get Ready for National Recovery Month in September

NAMA declares 2005 THE YEAR OF RECOVERY FOR METHADONE PATIENTS

Methadone patients have never been allowed to think of themselves as in recovery. This year the National Alliance of Methadone is declaring Recovery Month “The Year of Recovery for Methadone Patients.”

Time to Celebrate Our Recovery

Rising! Recovery in Action Summit

• Recovery Summit Attendees

  Group Picture of Recovery Summit Attendees.

• Lisa Mojer-Torres Welcome and Opening.  pdf format
• Summit Index

What can you do to make this happen?

• When you go to your program tell other patients that they are in recovery. Shake their hand, tell them about Recovery Month and what this Special Month means for methadone patients.
• When you go to your program tell the staff about Recovery Month and what this means for methadone patients. Ask them to plan an event for the clinic.
• Tell your friends who know you are a methadone patient that you are in recovery and that September is Recovery Month.
• Tell your family that you are in recovery and that September is Recovery Month.

Links for Recovery Month

• Download a Recovery Month Kit

  Download the Recovery Kits with all kinds of resources for recovery month and to help you with a recovery month event.

• Medication Assisted Treatments Webcasts

  Join Webcast Host Ivette Torres, Associate Director for Consumer Affairs, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Dr. H. Westley Clark, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Dr. Francis “Frank” Vocci, Director, Division of Treatment Research & Development, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); Dr. Mark Willenbring, Director, Division of Treatment and Recovery Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)and our own Dana Moulton, Project Assistant, Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR) and a Director of Massachusetts NAMA.

  Download the MAT Webcasts Flyer

• Read Mark Beresky of the Opiate Dependence Resource Center’s Recovery Story

What are you doing for Recovery Month?

Post your Ideas at the WPM Celebrate Recovery Forum