Invitational Conference on Drug User Activism

Letter to the editor RoanokeTimes (in publication) January 3, 2005 Give some credit to methadone treatment. In response to your Dec. 19 news article, “Are drug deaths decreasing?”: I’d like to make an observation. I’m struck that in trying to find an answer as to why the “drug deaths” may be decreasing, there’s a glaring…

Sponsored by American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Washington, D.C. ~ April 13-16, 2003 Saturday, April 12, 2003 Pre-Conference Session  NAMA offers special thanks to Mallinckrodt. We also wish to thank Haworth Press, Vista Pharmaceuticals, Bendiner Labs, NIDA, and CSAT without whose support the first Certified Methadone Advocate (CMA) Training Course would not…

National Methadone Conference AMTA 2001 Tuesday, October 9th 2 P.M. Administrative Detox: Necessary Use or Abuse Joe Neuberger, Delaware NAMA James DePasquale, Long Beach Patient Committee This roundtable examined the practice of “administrative detoxification” from programs, and explored the conflicts between what programs often perceive as a necessary evil and patients often perceive as a…

Policy Statement Number 7 January 1997 Methadone treatment has been in existence now for over thirty years returning to society more productive individuals than any other treatment modality. Yet, despite this success it is disparaged and misunderstood which has translated into bias and discrimination not only for the consumer of the treatment as even those…

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Letter to Linda Martz, January 6, 2005 Abusers Are Not Who You Think Linda Martz News-Journal (Mansfield, OH) Tue, 07 Dec 2004 MANSFIELD — Those tracking drug trends “expected” to see a spike in deaths from Methadone within Ohio over the past year, the top official at Ohio’s State Board of Pharmacy says. But the…