Basic Pharmacology: How Methadone Works? by J.T. Payte, Jeffrey Smith and Joycelyn Woods

Herman Joseph, PhD 1931 – 2019 May 28, 2019 May 6, 2019 Dr. Joseph was one of the important influences on addiction and criminal justice during the latter 20th and early 21st century.  For more than 50 years he has worked as a social research scientist in the interrelated fields of addiction, treatment, criminal justice,…

NAMA Talk Volumn 2, Number 2 March 15, 2000 Organizational News by Joycelyn Woods This will be a short column since there is a lot of Reading in this issue of NAMA Talk and we are busy, busy, busy with the AMTA Conference. Maureen Neville reports that the Patient Board had a meeting last week…

Policy Statement Number 1 April 1994 The National Alliance of Methadone Advocates supports the concept of Medical Maintenance and the prescribing of methadone outside of the methadone clinic setting. Medical Maintenance was initially implemented for patients who had achieved a high level of functionally in society and were hindered by the regulations that were conceived…

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…

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…