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The intent of Bottle Recall initially was to be able to allow patients take home medication and to insure that methadone is not diverted to the streets. However, methadone programs have been giving patients take home medication for years without a serious methadone diversion problem. Furthermore numerous studies have demonstrated that methadone is not a…

What Is Office Based Opioid Treatment or OBOT? OBOT is the treatment of opiate addiction with a medication in a physicians’ office and outside of the clinic system. Two medications are available methadone and buprenorphrine that was recently approved. Each medication has specific requirements and regulations before it can be dispensed. Using buprenorphine the physician…

The Advocacy Training Session The training for certification includes a variety of topics to give advocates a well-grounded understanding of methadone treatment, research, regulations and laws that protect methadone patients and programs. Addiction and Methadone The biological constructs of addiction will be explained in a way that can be understood by lay people (i.e. opiate receptors,…

The belief that substances addict people is driven by the fact that few people have any real idea of responsibility without considering it to be equivalent to blame.  The whole disease theorys main attraction is that it gets people off the hook.  If their disease make them behave poorly, then they are not to blame. …

Page 4098 Federal Register 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)…

Best Practices: Treatment of Opiate Dependence Conference Update   Physician Training for Use of Buprenorphine   The conference planning committee working with the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the American Academy of Addictions Psychiatry will be offering the following 8-hour physician workshop during the Best Practices: Treatment of Opiate Dependence Conference, scheduled for March…