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Feature Story Join Together Online June 3, 2004. Seeking to empower grassroots advocates for addiction recovery, the group Faces and Voices of Recovery (FAVOR) recently held the first in a planned series of national advocacy-training sessions in Braintree, Mass. Cosponsored by a pair of regional advocacy groups, the New England Alliance of Addiction Recovery Communities…

Herman Joseph, PhD 1931 – 2019 May 28, 2019 May 6, 2019 Dr. Joseph was one of the important influences on addiction and criminal justice during the latter 20th and early 21st century.  For more than 50 years he has worked as a social research scientist in the interrelated fields of addiction, treatment, criminal justice,…

Charleston Daily Mail Tuesday February 17, 2004. Boone County man speaks out, officials defend At first, it all seemed so perfectly legal and innocent. A naive Travis Barker swallowed what he thought was a harmless prescription pill, just 20 mg of a popular painkiller called OxyContin. He was told that day about four years ago…

Numerous studies have shown that dose is one of the most important aspects of methadone treatment and that patients who are given an adequate dose, know their dose and have some influence regarding their dose do better in treatment and remain in treatment (Ball and Ross, 1994; Caplehorn and Bell, 1991; Cooper, 1992; D’Annuno and…