Expectations

Every patient, in fact
every member of the methadone community, has a right to expect that
someone who represents themselves as a methadone advocate be knowledgeable
in all aspects of methadone treatment.


NAMA has created the Methadone Advocate Training and
Methadone Advocate Certification for a whole host of reasons. Most of
which we will discuss in Washington, DC at the first CMA Training..
However, the most obvious is:

To give persons interested in doing methadone advocacy work the best
possible set of tools to accomplish the goals of Methadone Advocacy.

 


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