NAMA Education Series


Number 1

Methadone Maintenance
and Patient Self Advocacy

By Arlene Ford (March,
1991).


Number 2

Drug
Policy in the Age of AIDS – The Philosophy of Harm Reduction

By Rod
Sorge (April, 1991).


Number 3

Myths
About Methadone

By Emmett Velten (March, 1992).


Number 4

Methadone, HIV Infection,
and Immune Function

By Herman Joseph (August,
1994).


Number 5

How
Methadone Works: Basic Pharmacology

By J.T.
Payte, Jeffrey Smith and Joycelyn Woods
Revised
February 2001

Number 6


Starting a Patient Run Program

(In Revision)


Number 7

Managed Care and Methadone Treatment: Who Will Pay?
(Discontinued).


Number 8

Methadone Does Not Work Bibliography

(October 1995).


Number 9

The Methadone Maintained Patient and the Treatment of Pain

By J. Thomas Payte, Elizabeth Khuri, Herman Joseph and Joycelyn Woods
(January, 1999). Supplement

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