Recovery Bill of Rights

Methadone Advocate Training   Want to know what a Methadone Conference is like? Check out our report on the NAMA website methadone.org                         FIRST EVER METHADONE (MAT) ADVOCATE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION AT THE 2003 AATOD CONFERENCE IN Washington, DC SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2003 Information about the first ever CMA Training at AATOD on April 12,…

Seven Policies Required to Conquer Addiction in our Lifetime By Johnny Allem, The Johnson Institute (2004).  Know Your Rights a Center for Substance Abuse Treatment publication (2007).  Recovery Month Resources for Recovery Month. What does recovery mean to you Lessons from the recovery experience for research and practice by Alexandre B. Laudet. Published in the Journal of Substance Abuse…

Join Together Online January 21, 2003 While 616 physicians nationwide are now authorized to prescribe buprenorphine, its widespread use is still an issue, the Baltimore Sun reported on January 15. Product availability is the first problem. Despite receiving FDA approval in October, the manufacturer did not ship the product to pharmaceutical warehouses until last week….

  Time:  September 26, 1998  9:30 AM to 5 PM Place: Roosevelt Hospital Auditorium  1000 Tenth Avenue  between 58-59th Street  New York City Topics:  A conference for methadone patients and by methadone patients. This important conference gives a voice to the voiceless. Topics discussed will be stigma, prejudice, misunderstandings about methadone, new regulations, physician prescribing…

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…

Make This One of Your Monthly Tasks! Write Your Representatives! Write to your representative in Congress and tell them that methadone saved your life and that it works.  You do not have to sign your name you can make up a name like “Mary Methadone” or “Tommy Treatment” and say that you cannot sign your…