EXPANDED PHARMACOTHERAPIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF OPIATE DEPENDENCE

 

Friday, September 25, 1998

 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

 

     Several countries
are using opiates for maintenance treatment,


     including:

 

     * codeine

     * morphine

     * palfium

     * buprenorphine

     * injectable
methadone


 

     Presenters
of these pharmacotherapies will include leading clinicians


     and health
officials from the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain,


     Canada, France,
Australia, Spain, Israel and the United States


 

 

     These conferences
are sponsored by:


 

     Beth Israel
Medical Center


     Columbia University
School of Public Health


     The Lindesmith
Center of the Open Society Institute


     Montefiore
Medical Center


     The New York
Academy of Medicine


     Yale University
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS


 

 

     Fee: $40 June
6 conference


         
$50 September 25 conference


         
lunch included


 

     For on-line
registration: www.nyam.org/meded/announcements/heroin.html


 

     For further
information contact the New York Academy of Medicine at


     212-822-7237,
fax at 212-987-4735, or e-mail [email protected]


 
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