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FALSE!   While a significant minority of methadone patients become alcoholic, over 98% were heavy or problem drinkers prior to their introduction to heroin. The statistics for cocaine abusers are similar. Methadone maintenance is not a treatment for non-opioid drug abuse. The patient who responds best to methadone maintenance treatment is one who has a…

These facts were important, of course, to Dole and Nyswander, but were completely crucial in their long battle to get government to go along with the idea of methadone maintenance.  Government reflects Americans practical tendency as well as its moralistic, judgmental tendency, and in this case the practical tendency can out on top.  Government allowed…

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment July 22, 1999 Contact: Jim Michie Phone: 1-800-487-4890 Leah Young Phone: 301-443-3740 Methadone programs will have to be accredited under a new proposal announced today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The new accreditation program will be managed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration…

The next few years will be important and exciting for methadone maintenance treatment. On May 17, 2001 the oversight of methadone was officially removed from the FDA and handed over to the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. We are currently in a3-year transition period during which CSAT is slowly setting policy which includes accreditation of…

MARS services include: training in medication assisted recovery, a mix of culturally appropriate support groups, drug and alcohol free social activities, recovery celebratory events, peer leader training and mentoring, and a peer council to help direct the development of the project. The most important part of MARS is the Core Training in Addiction and how…

Treatment INDEX   OBOT PUBLICATIONS- Federal Code, Manuals, Teaching Packets, and other OBOT information.   BASIC INFORMATION FOR PHYSICIANS   NAMA’s Comments to the Federation of State Medical Boards   Physicians’ Guide: Opioid Agonist Medical Maintenance Treatment   Using Buprenorphine for Office Based Opioid Treatment (pdf file)   Manual For Methadone Medical Management (pdf file)