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Justice Department Finds that Indiana State Nursing Board Discriminates Against People with Opioid Use Disorder NAMA Recovery Patient Rights March 30, 2022 | 0 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 25, 2022 Indianapolis – Today, the Justice Department found that the Indiana State Board of Nursing (Nursing Board) violated the Americans with Disabilities Act…
Our Mission Today over a million people in this country are suffering from an addiction to opiates. The fortunate ones are those who have sought treatment… those who take a single dose of medication each day to be free of opiate addiction. It was 50 years ago that a group of three doctors at Rockefeller…
NAMA Board of Directors Zachary Talbott, MSW, CMA President [email protected] Sharon Larson, RN, MS, CMA Vice Pressident [email protected] Brenda Davis, MSW, CASAC-T, CMA Treasurer [email protected] Megan Marx-Varela, MPA Secretary [email protected] Joycelyn Sue Woods, MA, CARC, CMA Executive Director [email protected] Paul Bowman, CMA, CARC [email protected] Sara E. Gefvert, CRS/CPS, CMA Technology and Communications [email protected] Walter Ginter, CMA Recovery and Peer Services [email protected] Charles Hilger, MSW, LDAC [email protected] Claude Hopkins,…
The Writer Asks to Have Their Name Withheld for Fear of Retaliation Imagine — a young woman is in the Ladies Room stall, the Door is being held open by a worker whose job it is to observe the woman (any female patient) give a urine sample. This sample is tested for any drugs that…
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…
