Chapters and Affiliates

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…

HEROIN ADDICTION – HOW METHADONE WORKS Carmen Arlt, Director of Chemical Dependency & Addictions, Porter-Starke Services and Director, The MAG Indiana The Munster Times Mon, 01 Sep 2003 Porter Starke Services’ Chemical Dependency and Addictions Program has a clear understanding of the dynamics involved in heroin addiction. While we do not dispense methadone, we believe…

The Coalition for Methadone Choice is attempting to prevent Mayor Giuliani from ‘detoxing’ more than 2000 patients and threatening treatment for thousands more. We are looking for:                 Methadone maintenance patients to participate in public education and/or lobbying.                 Patients at city-run programs to join in legal efforts to save their treatment.                 Anyone who…

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…

FALSE! These are three of the many myths of methadone. Few drugs have been studied as extensively in humans as methadone. Hundreds of thousands of people have been maintained on methadone, many since the treatment was developed over thirty years ago. Methadone and methadone therapy are so tremendously misunderstood (for many reasons) that any study…

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