Newletter Archive Index

Education Series Number 1 March 1991 Arlene Ford helped to start one of the first methadone advocacy groups at Nassau County Medical Center. This article was written for the COMPA Newsletter for distribution at the National Methadone Conference. Methadone has allowed me to salvage my life. In May of 1988, following a fourth relapse, my…

Fifteen Years ago when NAMA first started, methadone advocacy was a few committed individuals who all knew one another. When on those rare occasions that new advocate became active she or he was mentored by a more experienced advocate. A few mistakes were made but the same mistake was seldom made twice. The result of…

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Policy Statement Number 3 May 1994 It must be emphasized that methadone maintenance treatment is a medical treatment for narcotic addiction. Recent research has found that abstinent former heroin users have irregularities within their immune and endocrine systems. However, these irregularities are normalized with methadone maintenance. This further underscores that methadone maintenance is a medical…

The Federal Regulations Pages are a work in progress. In coming weeks they will be better formatted, indexed, etc. But due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to place them up AS IS for the time being. Please inform us of typos, etc. PS- New York State regulations coming soon! If you have the methadone…

The Lindesmith Center’s SPECIAL DRUG POLICY SEMINAR SERIES Summer and Fall 1996 DRUG TREATMENT RECONSIDERED: HARM REDUCTION PERSPECTIVES The Lindesmith Center is presenting a special seminar series on the relationship between drug treatment and harm reduction. Harm reduction services focus on reducing the negative consequences of drug use among those unwilling or unable to abstain….