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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…
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) Telephone (240) 276-2717 1Choke Cherry Road, Room 2-1065 Facsimile (240) 276-1630 Rockville, Maryland 20857 E-mail: [email protected] Division of Pharmacologic Therapies DPT C. Todd Rosendale, MA Public Health Advisor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FACSIMILE AInformation Memorandum@ This facsimile is intended only for the addressee…
FALSE! The MMT patient is DEPENDENT on their medication. Not “addicted”! The term “addiction” is currently used as a psychological term referring to the loss of control over drug use or other behaviors such as eating or gambling. By these criteria as laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, the…
LATEST REPORTS Monday, April 16, 2001 April 2000, Governor Dean Promises To Veto Any Methadone Bill (but finally gives in if he is allowed to rewrite the recommendations of his own experts). Act 123 An Act Relating To Treatment Of Opiate Addiction (this links you to Vermont’s website and full text of the…
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Nominations Open for the 2022 Richard Lane/Robert Holden Advocacy Award! May 1, 2022 Richard Lane was a long-term heroin user who, upon release from prison in 1967, was instrumental in establishing one of the Nation’s first opioid treatment programs. In 1974, he became the Executive Director of Man Alive and later served as Vice President…