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This chart was prepared by Herman Joseph and Joycelyn Sue Woods and is reprinted from METHADONE TREATMENT WORKS: A COMPENDIUM FOR METHADONE MAINTENANCE TREATMENT Topic Illicit Heroin Addiction Stabilized Methadone Maintenance Onset of action Immediate 30 minutes Duration of action 4 – 6 hours 24 – 36 hours or half-life Route of administration Injection, snorting,…
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,…
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 source of anxiety and constant threat to their treatment. Should administrative detox even be program policy…
Hector Valentin Maldonado February 14, 1942 – August 14, 2003 Acting President, 1996 – 1998 Acting Treasurer, 1995 – 1996 Vice President, 1989 – 1996 Hector Maldonado was a founding member of NAMA. He was a member of the committee during the first year that met when patients and professionals discussed the need to start…
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…
Policy Statement Number 6 August 1995 NAMA is well aware of the importance Methadone Anonymous has had on patients across the United States. Organizing a 12 step group is hard work and the commitment of Methadone Anonymous to the recovery of methadone patients is apparent. Methadone Anonymous contends with the same discrimination and stigma that…