Recovery Bill of Rights

Pre-conference Meeting Sunday, October 7th Unifying the Treatment Community This special pre-conference meeting is divided into two sessions – a morning and afternoon session. These sessions have been developed by the Advocacy Coalition: National Alliance of Methadone Advocates (NAMA), Advocates for Recovery through Medicine (ARM), Advocates For the Integration of Recovery and Methadone (AFIRM), Virginia…

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…

Education Series Number 4 August 1994 Methadone, HIV Infection and Immune Function by Herman Joseph Studies undertaken over the past two decades, primarily by Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek of The Rockefeller University, and corroborated by other scientists throughout the world have established the long-term medical safety of methadone maintenance treatment (Kreek, 1992; Kreek, 1987; Kreek,…

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….

Telling The Untold Methadone Success Stories This Treatment Works “There may be no more effective way to contain heroin abuse than methadone, a drug that blocks an addict’s craving. Yet new efforts to expand use of methadone have inspired new attacks on it, attacks that deny common sense.“ -The New York Times, April 8, 1990…

Part 828.11 New York Title 17 NYCRR Length of Treatment: a. If a patient has been admitted for less than 3 months daily clinic visits are required unless the program is open only 6 days. b. More than 3 months but less than 2 years 3 visits a week are required. c. More then 2…