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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 9, 2002 NIDA Contact: Michelle Person 301-443-6245 SAMHSA Contact: Leah Young 301-443-8956 NIDA Research and SAMHSA Physician Training Combine to Put Care for Opiate Dependence in Hands of Family Doctor. Buprenorphine, a new medication developed through more than a decade of research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA),…

Letter, November 9, 2004 Sheriff Chris Curry; Sir, I have read the articles that state you are adiment against having a methadone treatment center in your county. May I point out sir that as a law enforcement officer this could do nothing but help your already rising arrest record for drug related crime in Shelby…

J. Thomas Payte, M.D. is Medical Director and Founder of Drug Dependence Associates in San Antonio, Texas, Chair of the Maintenance Medications Committee of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a member of NAMAs Advisory Board. Jeffrey Smith, Ph.D. has a degree is central nervous system pharmacology. Joycelyn Woods, M.A. is President of NAMA….

What is International Drug User’s Day (IDUD) The IDUD is something that is not celebrated in the US. It is Novemeber 1st and the first celebration was in Holland (where else) and most of the big celebrations since have been there. But this year BF hosted the main event in Denmark and the US NAMA…

The bias and misunderstandings about methadone as a medication often result in methadone patients being refused medical care (Umbricht-Schneiter, 1994; Zweben and Sorensen, 1988). Another common scenario is that their medication is used to coerce or manipulate methadone patients into medical treatment (Blansfield, 1992). In other areas of medicine such actions would be considered unethical…