National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery

FALSE! The MMT patient is DEPENDENT on their medication.  Not “addicted”! The term “addiction” is currently used as a psychological term referring to the loss of control over drug use or other behaviors such as eating or gambling. By these criteria as laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, the…

October 9, 2002 NIDA Contact: Michelle Person 301-443-6245 SAMHSA Contact: Leah Young 301-443-8956 NIDA Research and SAMHSA Physician Training Combine to Put Care for Opiate Dependence in Hands of Family Doctor. Buprenorphine, a new medication developed through more than a decade of research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), will now become…

Michael Grenga and H. Spencer Nelson are members of NAMA and patients from programs in upstate New York. Grenga, M. and Nelson, H.S. 1995. Methadone Treatment in New York. The Ombudsman (Spring/Summer) No. 3/4: 5-6. When the first methadone programs were set up in this country, one of the biggest factors in allowing these programs to…

Tennessee/NW Georgia Chapter of the National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery And we believe in the 5 goals of NAMA-R: To eliminate discrimination toward methadone patients. To create a more positive image about methadone maintenance treatment. To help preserve patient’s dignity and their rights. To make treatment available on demand to every person who needs…

Sniffing, Snorting Drugs May Raise HCV Risk by Theresa Waldron Reuters Health 4 Jul. 2003 Source: Journal of Medical Virology. 2003;70:387-390. People who snort or sniff heroin in combination with cocaine may be at increased risk of developing the liver infection hepatitis C, according to a new study. Thomas Kresina, a spokesman for the National…

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