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Six Steps to Zero Deaths Never take a prescription painkiller unless it is prescribed to you. Everyone responds differently to pain medications. What is safe for one person may not be safe for another. Do not take pain medicine with alcohol. Never mix the two, it is a dangerous combination that can be deadly. Alcohol…
Ira Sobel, M.A. is Staff Writer and Researcher for Methadone Awareness, Editor-at-Large for The Ombudsman and has written articles for the newsletters of many of NAMA’s affiliates. Have you ever been discriminated against because of being on methadone? Were you ever blackballed by a 12 step program and at the same time told to sit…
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…
The Writer Asks to Have Their Name Withheld for Fear of Retaliation Imagine — a young woman is in the Ladies Room stall, the Door is being held open by a worker whose job it is to observe the woman (any female patient) give a urine sample. This sample is tested for any drugs that…
Saturday, October 16, 2004 Preconference Events Frederick W. Christie, MA AFIRM Long Island, New York H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH CSAT Rockville, MD Stewart Leavitt, PHD Addiction Treatment Forum Glenview, IL James P. Connolly, CMA PA NAMA Newtown, PA Herman Joseph, PHD, CMA NAMA New York, NY J. Thomas Payte, MD, CMA Colonial Management…
Vol. 66, No. 11 / Wednesday, January 17, 2001 / Rules and Regulations (i) Unsupervised or take-home use. To limit the potential for diversion of opioid agonist treatment medications to the illicit market, opioid agonist treatment medications dispensed to patients for unsupervised use shall be subject to the following requirements. (1) Any patient…