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Press Release October 27, 2004 Contact: Joycelyn Woods (212) 595-6262 A Methadone Treatment Center in Alabama, “Shelby County Treatment Center” is under fire. After four trials, with no testimony or witnesses against them, a local county Judge granted a permanent injunction and says they have to stay closed. The State of Alabama that grants permission…

Policy Statement Number 14 July 2003 As methadone programs have become more punitive the policy of observing the patient while giving a urine specimen has become more common. Fortunately, these policies have remained the exception, as the majority of programs do not find the need to scrutinize their patients. Patients state that it is of…

Conference 2000 American Methadone Treatment Association April 9-12, 2000 San Francisco Committee Chair John Finger Assistant to the Chair, Michael Garrett Co-chair, Alice Diorio Committee James DePasquale Becky Duarte Barbara Finger Carlos Franco Greg Keller Howard Lotsof Judith Ostergard Carmen Pearman Diane Seaman Joycelyn Woods NAMA Events and Activities Exhibition Booth Booth Manager: Greg Keller,…

Exciting Developments in the UK Alan Joyce Methadone Alliance November 21, 2003 There are exciting things happening in the UK that the Methadone Alliance has been involved with. In the UK there is a type of General Practitioner (Doctor, in what you call ‘office based practice’, what we call ‘General practice’), who gain additional qualifications…

Education Series Number 1 March 1991 Arlene Ford helped to start one of the first methadone advocacy groups at Nassau County Medical Center. This article was written for the COMPA Newsletter for distribution at the National Methadone Conference. Methadone has allowed me to salvage my life. In May of 1988, following a fourth relapse, my…

NAMA Talk Volumn 2, Number 2 March 15, 2000 Organizational News by Joycelyn Woods This will be a short column since there is a lot of Reading in this issue of NAMA Talk and we are busy, busy, busy with the AMTA Conference. Maureen Neville reports that the Patient Board had a meeting last week…