Since its beginning over 25 years ago, methadone maintenance
has been the most popular treatment for narcotic addiction. Many times
over the years methadone treatment has been demonstrated to be the most
effective treatment for narcotic addiction, resulting in the termination
of heroin use and of criminal behavior. In spite of its success, methadone
maintenance is often disparaged as a”substitute drug” by those who ignore
the positive benefits that it has clearly brought to society. These attitudes
negatively impact on methadone maintenance programs in a variety of ways,
but it is the methadone patients themselves who are particularly stigmatized
and harmed. This atmosphere will not change as long as there is no organization
or formal mechanism for methadone patients to voice their own needs and
to form a strong, unified public presence on their own behalf. 

WI NAMA is the official NAMA affiliate for the state of
Wisconson and will actively respond to the issues that affect the daily
lives of methadone patients in Wisconsin and nationally and work towards
the day when all methadone patients can take pride in their accomplishments.

Links to NAMA & Affiliates

• National Alliance of
  Methadone Advocates
• NAMA
  Mirror Site
• New York State
Advocates for the Betterment of Addiction Treatment
and Education ABATE
• North
  Carolina
Methadone Information Exchange
• Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Organizational Needs in Treatment DONT
• Philadelphia,
  Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Chapter of the National Alliance
of Methadone Advocates Home of Methadone Awareness
• Queensland,
  Australia
Queensland Intravenous AIDS Association (QuIVAA)

Or sent an Email to these Affiliates

• Oregon
Southern Oregon Methadone Advocates SOMA
Eddie Barrios
• California
Methadone A Legitimate Treatment Alternative MALTA
Diane Fleury-Seaman
• Iowa
Heartland Research and Outreach Information Network
HeROIN and
MCAT: the only world wide patient owned/run MTP
Tracy Gilmore
• Tennessee
Tennessee Methadone Advocates Coalition TMAC
Robin Robinette
• Gary,
  Indiana
The Methadone Advocacy Group of Gary TMAG
Carmen Pearman
• Denmark
Brugerforeningen – Danish Drugsusers Union
Joergen Kjaer

 


Links to Other Methadone Organizations

LINDESMITH
CENTER
Addiction
Treatment Forum
The Ibogaine
Dossier
Pagina
del Gruppo SIMS
(NAMA Materials in Italian)

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Prepared by: Joycelyn Woods on 12 March 1997