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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Education Series Number 5.3 February 2001 (Revised) Joycelyn Woods has a graduate degree in neuroscience and psychopharmacology. She has published in neuroscience journals and is recognized internationally for her methadone advocacy work. She is a recipient of the “Richard Lane Methadone Advocacy Award.” Methadone Metabolism Methadone was once considered to be pretty much the same…
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…
Letter to the editor RoanokeTimes (in publication) January 3, 2005 Give some credit to methadone treatment. In response to your Dec. 19 news article, “Are drug deaths decreasing?”: I’d like to make an observation. I’m struck that in trying to find an answer as to why the “drug deaths” may be decreasing, there’s a glaring…
FALSE! While a significant minority of methadone patients become alcoholic, over 98% were heavy or problem drinkers prior to their introduction to heroin. The statistics for cocaine abusers are similar. Methadone maintenance is not a treatment for non-opioid drug abuse. The patient who responds best to methadone maintenance treatment is one who has a…
Sponsored by American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Washington, D.C. ~ April 13-16, 2003 Saturday, April 12, 2003 Pre-Conference Session NAMA offers special thanks to Mallinckrodt. We also wish to thank Haworth Press, Vista Pharmaceuticals, Bendiner Labs, NIDA, and CSAT without whose support the first Certified Methadone Advocate (CMA) Training Course would not…