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Nominations Open for the 2022 Richard Lane/Robert Holden Advocacy Award! NAMA Recovery    AATOD Lane Holden Award    May 1, 2022  |  0 Richard Lane was a long-term heroin user who, upon release from prison in 1967, was instrumental in establishing one of the Nation’s first opioid treatment programs. In 1974, he became the Executive…

Most heroin addicts will tell you the high behind methadone is quite inadequate, at least in comparison with the real thing. You may have heard a saying, If God made something better than heroin, He is keeping it to Himself! Almost all opiate addicts like heroin better than methadone.  The most seasoned staff people at…

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   Contents          The Pharmacology of Opioids  Cont.      Back    Education Series Number 5.1  February 2001 (Revised)  Part 2 continued     Figure 3 The Methadone Molecule.  The two dimensional representation of the methadone molecule is very different from that of morphine. However, molecules are three dimensional and the methadone molecule bends into a structure that is very…

by Thomas D’Aunno, PhD; Harold A. Pollack, PhD Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 288, No. 7 August 21, 2002 Context Results from several studies conducted in the early 1990s showed that the majority of US methadone maintenance programs did not use treatment practices that met established standards for the care of heroin users….

Welcome to The President’s Office and to the National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery or NAMA Recovery. NAMA Recovery has gone through some significant changes in the past few years. We are proud of the MARS Project the first project of its kind that provides recovery services to patients receiving Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). As…