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Membership Application Please complete and send to: National Alliance of Methadone Advocates 435 Second Avenue New York, NY, 10010 Name: Mr / Ms _______________________________________________________________________ Organization: _____________________________________ Title: ______________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________________________ City: ___________________________________________________ State: ______________________ Zip Code (Postal Code): ____________________ Country: ____________________________________ Telephone: ______________________________________ Circle One: Day Eve Telephone: ______________________________________ Circle One: Day Eve Fax: ________________________________…
Education Series Number 10 June 2004 The New Federal Regulations What Do They Mean for Patients? Methadone treatment in the U.S. is changing before our eyes. Some of this change has been rapid; some of it will take years or decades. Some patients have heard about new federal regulations, including an end to automatic dose…
Education Series Number 5.1 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.” The Lack of Education Ignorance about methadone abounds (Zweben and Sorensen, 1988)….
These facts were important, of course, to Dole and Nyswander, but were completely crucial in their long battle to get government to go along with the idea of methadone maintenance. Government reflects Americans practical tendency as well as its moralistic, judgmental tendency, and in this case the practical tendency can out on top. Government allowed…
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FALSE! While a significant minority of methadone patients become alcoholic, over 98% were heavy or problem drinkers prior to their introduction to heroin. The statistics for cocaine abusers are similar. Methadone maintenance is not a treatment for non-opioid drug abuse. The patient who responds best to methadone maintenance treatment is one who has a…