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Methadone treatment is entering a new era giving methadone patients opportunities that they never had before. Our views and issues are being taken seriously by many and it is important that advocacy organizations continue their important role as the patient’s voice. It is because of the hard work of many of the NAMA chapters that…
We have understood HIV transmission for years. The routes are obvious, limited, and modifiable, yet HIV seroprevalence has steadily increased around the world. There have been only limited medical advances in the treatment of HIV-related illness. Because of a lack of federal leadership on all fronts, from funding to discrimination, misguided research priorities at the…
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…
National Methadone Conference AMTA 2001 Monday, October 8th, 11 am to 1 pm Chair Mark Parrino, American Methadone Treatment Association The Policy Maker’s Luncheon is an invitation only event that is attended by the federal and state agencies and national organizational representatives (i.e. ASAM, NAMA). Therefore no pictures were taken during the luncheon. The Policy…
National Alliance of Methadone Advocates The President’s Office Joycelyn Woods Executive Report DRAFT New York State Regulations, Page 4 of 5 Go to Page 5
The intent of Bottle Recall initially was to be able to allow patients take home medication and to insure that methadone is not diverted to the streets. However, methadone programs have been giving patients take home medication for years without a serious methadone diversion problem. Furthermore numerous studies have demonstrated that methadone is not a…