The Advocacy Training SessionThe training for certification includes a
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The Advocacy Training SessionThe training for certification includes a
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There are many misperceptions and misunderstanding about the federal regulations and particularly when it comes to issues regarding raising the dose over 100 mgs. Prior to the HIV epidemic in order to raise a patient’s dose it was required for the physician to contact the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for permission. In the early…
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Treatment Facility Locator Buprenorphine Physician Locator Center for Substance Abuse Treatment US government search engine to locate all forms of drug treatment. Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) US government search engine to locate physicians prescribing Buprenorphine. Code of Federal Regulations Federal Register, January 17, 2001 CRF 42 Part 8 in text and…
Not just in substance abuse, mental health, and AIDS services do methadone patients face routine discrimination. San Francisco MUNI will not allow methadone patients to drive its buses, even though an important legal ruling in New York overturned a similar policy (Beazer vs New York City Transit Authority, 1975). Not just in those instances but…
HBO’s Methadonia Stigma Strikes Again New York On October 6, 2005 HBO premiered a “so-called” documentary called “Methadonia” directed by Michel Negroponte. To give you an idea of the tone of the movie here is the Press Release from its premier at the New York Film Festival September 23, 2005. The 43rd New York…
Feature Story Join Together Online June 3, 2004. Seeking to empower grassroots advocates for addiction recovery, the group Faces and Voices of Recovery (FAVOR) recently held the first in a planned series of national advocacy-training sessions in Braintree, Mass. Cosponsored by a pair of regional advocacy groups, the New England Alliance of Addiction Recovery Communities…