NAMA Publications

Education
Series

Cost
per each $2


Number
1. Methadone Maintenance and Patient Self Advocacy by Arlene Ford.
(March, 1991).

Number
2. Drug Policy in the Age of AIDS: 
The Philosophy of Harm Reduction by Rod Sorge (April, 1991).

Number
3. Myths About Methadone by Emmett Velten 
(March, 1992).

Number
4. Methadone, HIV Infection and Immune Function by Herman Joseph
(August, 1994).

Number
5.1. The Basics of Pharmacology, Basic Pharmacology:  How Methadone Works? by J.T. Payte, Jeffrey Smith and
Joycelyn Woods (February, 2001 Revised).

Number
5.2.  The Pharmacology of
Opioids, Basic Pharmacology:  How
Methadone Works? by J.T. Payte, Jeffrey Smith and Joycelyn Woods
(February, 2001 Revised).

Number
5.3. Drugs and Conditions That Impact On the Action of Methadone, Basic
Pharmacology:  How Methadone
Works? by J.T. Payte, Jeffrey Smith and Joycelyn Woods (February, 2001
Revised).

Number
6. Starting A Patient Run Program (Not available; currently in
revision).

Number
7. Managed Care, Medicaid, Medicare and Private Insurance: Who Will
Pay? (Not available in revision).

Number
8. Methadone Does Not Work Bibliography (October, 1995).

Number
9. The Methadone Maintained Patient and the Treatment of Pain by J.
Thomas Payte, Elizabeth Khuri, Herman

Joseph
and Joycelyn Woods (January,
1999).


 

 

 

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Number
1 Starting a Methadone Advocacy Group (NAMA Chapter or Affiliate). The
basics of starting a methadone advocacy group including history of
methadone advocacy, forming a Board of Directors, meeting planning,
first projects, 
politics
of methadone, listing of state agencies and other resources.

 

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