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Methadone maintenance treatment has been the most effective treatment for addiction to heroin resulting the cessation of heroin use and criminal behavior. Prior to the development of methadone maintenance treatment over 28 years ago narcotic addiction was considered incurable and a behavioral disorder under the control of law enforcement. Drs. Dole and Nyswander brought the…
Basic Pharmacology: How Methadone Works Part 2 Basic Opioid Pharmacology All natural and synthetic opioids exhibit a three dimensional T-shaped configuration (Barchas, Berger, Ciaranello and Elliott, 1977). This T-shaped molecule has two broad hydrophobic surfaces which are at right angles and a methylated nitrogen which is usually charged at physiological pH. The charged nitrogen is…
National Alliance of Methadone Advocates Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 25, 1998 435 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10010 Contact: Joycelyn Woods Policy Statement (212) 595-6262 Press Release Mayor Guilianis Announcement About Plan to Close Methadone Programs in New York City Uses a Misunderstood Drug Treatment to Promote Celebrity at the…
Raise Money for NAMA When You Shop iGive is an organization on the Web that helps charities and organizations like NAMA. Basically the idea is that you sign up for your favorite charity and we hope you will choose NAMA and whenever you need to purchase something you can go to their mall. The iGive…
Exciting Developments in the UK Alan Joyce Methadone Alliance November 21, 2003 There are exciting things happening in the UK that the Methadone Alliance has been involved with. In the UK there is a type of General Practitioner (Doctor, in what you call ‘office based practice’, what we call ‘General practice’), who gain additional qualifications…
The bias and misunderstandings about methadone as a medication often result in methadone patients being refused medical care (Umbricht-Schneiter, 1994; Zweben and Sorensen, 1988). Another common scenario is that their medication is used to coerce or manipulate methadone patients into medical treatment (Blansfield, 1992). In other areas of medicine such actions would be considered unethical…
