The Basic Advocacy Training SessionThe training for certification includes a variety of topics to give advocates a well-grounded understanding of MAT, research, regulations and laws that protect MAT patients and programs.
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The Basic Advocacy Training SessionThe training for certification includes a variety of topics to give advocates a well-grounded understanding of MAT, research, regulations and laws that protect MAT patients and programs.
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AMTA Conference 2000 American Methadone Treatment Association April 9-12, 2000 San Francisco Preconference Meeting How Can We Develop and Strengthen Patient Advocacy Groups? Day: Sunday Date: April 9, 2000 Time: 1 – 5 PM Moderator: John Finger, TexNAMA Presenters: Joycelyn Woods, NAMA Diane Fleury-Seaman, MALTA Fred Christie, AFIRM James DePasquale, Membership Director/Chapter Coordinator of NAMA…
Most heroin addicts will tell you the high behind methadone is quite inadequate, at least in comparison with the real thing. You may have heard a saying, If God made something better than heroin, He is keeping it to Himself! Almost all opiate addicts like heroin better than methadone. The most seasoned staff people at…
The Lindesmith Center’s SPECIAL DRUG POLICY SEMINAR SERIES Summer and Fall 1996 DRUG TREATMENT RECONSIDERED: HARM REDUCTION PERSPECTIVES The Lindesmith Center is presenting a special seminar series on the relationship between drug treatment and harm reduction. Harm reduction services focus on reducing the negative consequences of drug use among those unwilling or unable to abstain….
Methadone Advocate Training Want to know what a Methadone Conference is like? Check out our report on the NAMA website methadone.org FIRST EVER METHADONE (MAT) ADVOCATE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION AT THE 2003 AATOD CONFERENCE IN Washington, DC SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2003 Information about the first ever CMA Training at AATOD on April 12,…
Herman Joseph, PhD 1931 – 2019 May 28, 2019 May 6, 2019 Dr. Joseph was one of the important influences on addiction and criminal justice during the latter 20th and early 21st century. For more than 50 years he has worked as a social research scientist in the interrelated fields of addiction, treatment, criminal justice,…
Methadone maintenance treatment has been the most effective treatment for addiction to heroin resulting the cessation of heroin use and criminal behavior. Prior to the development of methadone maintenance treatment over 28 years ago narcotic addiction was considered incurable and a behavioral disorder under the control of law enforcement. Drs. Dole and Nyswander brought the…