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What Is Office Based Opioid Treatment or OBOT? OBOT is the treatment of opiate addiction with a medication in a physicians’ office and outside of the clinic system. Two medications are available methadone and buprenorphrine that was recently approved. Each medication has specific requirements and regulations before it can be dispensed. Using buprenorphine the physician…

Affiliates Package The first 2 parts of the Affiliates Package are in Ebook format. This means that your computer sees the file as an application and it will have an “exe” file extension. If you click on the file like it is an application – the Ebook with the documents will open. You can then…

Education Series Number 9 January 1999 Letter Supplement O N  Y O U R  L E T T E R H E A D Dear Doctor: The bearer of this letter is a patient in a methadone maintenance treatment program. Methadone patients frequently need treatment for other medical, surgical, and dental conditions. At times the health professional…

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This is a super-duper double issue of The Ombudsman and I think that you’ll agree with me that it is the best one yet. With each issue I worry because I believe that the issue is so good that it just could not be “topped” and I don’t want the next issue to be disappointing….

Batki, S.L.  Treatment of intravenous drug users with AIDS:  The role of methadone maintenance.  Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1988 20: 213-216. Legal Action Center. Beazer vs New York City Transit Authority: A Landmark Decision on Methadone Maintenance [Report].  New York: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1975.   Des Jarlais, D.C.; Friedman, S.R.; Novick, D.M. et…