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Exciting Developments in the UK Alan Joyce Methadone Alliance November 21, 2003 There are exciting things happening in the UK that the Methadone Alliance has been involved with. In the UK there is a type of General Practitioner (Doctor, in what you call ‘office based practice’, what we call ‘General practice’), who gain additional qualifications…
to your representative in Congress Upcoming EventsThe next few years will be important and exciting for methadone maintenance treatment. The FDA will be handing over their authority to the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and there will be changes in the methadone regulations to allow for physicians prescribing methadone. The DEA will remain involved in…
Education Series Number 5.3 February 2001 (Revised) Joycelyn Woods has a graduate degree in neuroscience and psychopharmacology. She has published in neuroscience journals and is recognized internationally for her methadone advocacy work. She is a recipient of the “Richard Lane Methadone Advocacy Award.” Methadone Metabolism Methadone was once considered to be pretty much the same…
Education Series Number 3 March 1992 Emmett Velten, Ph.D. is the Clinical Supervisor at the BAART Methadone Program, San Francisco, California. He has worked in methadone treatment as a clinician for over 25 years. Methadone has inspired an immense mythology. Perhaps it is the most extensive mythology surrounding any form of medical or psychological treatment,…
Stan Novick Stigma (STIG-ma): noun {From the Latin for “mark” or “brand”} a scar left by a hot iron a mark of shame or discredit an identifying mark or characteristic, i.e.: a specific diagnostic sign of a disease Everyone touched positively by methadone maintenance treatment is familiar with stigmatization. Patients, family members, friends, staff- we…
