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Dear Advocates: Since its beginning over 50 years ago methadone maintenance has been the most effective treatment for narcotic addiction. Evaluations worldwide over the past five decades have shown that methadone maintenance is the most successful treatment for opiate addiction, resulting in the termination both of opiate drug use and of criminal behavior.  In spite…

 Responsible Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Advocacy First the ground rules! In every thing NAMA-R does the rights and dignity of the individual patient take precedence. It is never, ever, OK to violate that rule no matter how important the issue. NAMA-R has not and will never serve as an apologist for poor treatment. Everyone whether…

TURNAROUND RUDY PUTS $5M IN METHADONE CLINICS By SUSAN RUBINOWITZ New York Post October 6, 1999 Mayor Giuliani has backed off further from his vow to end methadone treatment for heroin addicts – funding a $5 million expansion of the city’s clinics. The money is going to methadone centers at all 11 public hospitals to…

Birmingham POST-Herald, October 27, 2004. Jerime Dunaway, 33, waits in line for his methadone dose Thursday at the Northwest Alabama Treatment Center in Bessemer. Jerime Dunaway spends $70 a week on gas for driving his truck from Montevallo to Bessemer every morning to see his doctor before work. Dunaway, 33, said he’d like to find…

October 9, 2002 NIDA Contact: Michelle Person 301-443-6245 SAMHSA Contact: Leah Young 301-443-8956 NIDA Research and SAMHSA Physician Training Combine to Put Care for Opiate Dependence in Hands of Family Doctor. Buprenorphine, a new medication developed through more than a decade of research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), will now become…