The First Methadone Advocacy Conference

 

Time:  September 26, 1998 
9:30 AM to 5 PM


Place: Roosevelt Hospital Auditorium

 1000 Tenth Avenue

 between 58-59th Street

 New York City

Topics:  A conference for methadone
patients and by methadone patients.


This important conference gives a voice
to the voiceless. Topics discussed


will be stigma, prejudice, misunderstandings
about methadone, new


regulations, physician prescribing and
the importance for methadone


patients to be involved in “THEIR” treatment.

Sponsors: National Alliance of Methadone
Advocates (NAMA)


            
Methadone A Legitimate Treatment Alternative (MALTA)

Cost: $25.00 or Methadone Patient ID
Card and/or Donation

Contact: Joycelyn Woods

  212-595-NAMA

  [email protected]

Pre-registration is recommended
to insure adequate seating.

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