Recovery Bill of Rights

Nominations Open for the 2022 Richard Lane/Robert Holden Advocacy Award! May 1, 2022 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 Director of Man Alive and later served as Vice President…

CORONAVIRUS Resources We’ve gathered some resources from around the nation to support organizations, employees, and individuals through the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration. Relevant resources from other federal agencies. STATE RESOURCES Relevant resources from state agencies arount the nation. OTHER AGENCIES Relevant resources from non-government agencies. SAMHSA’s COVID-19…

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…

Changes in Methadone Treatment Practices: Results From a National Panel Study, 1988-2000 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…

NAMA wishes to thank the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) for their Support of Certified Methadone Advocate Training at the 2003 AATOD Conference in Washington DC. NAMA wishes to offer special thanks to Mallinckrodt  and American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD).

Letter to Linda Martz, January 6, 2005 Abusers Are Not Who You Think Linda Martz News-Journal (Mansfield, OH) Tue, 07 Dec 2004 MANSFIELD — Those tracking drug trends “expected” to see a spike in deaths from Methadone within Ohio over the past year, the top official at Ohio’s State Board of Pharmacy says. But the…