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ByAdminAdmin 12/26/2021Congratulations to Sara Gefvert, the 2022 Lane/Holden Award Winner! November 2, 2022 The 2022 Richard Lane/Robert Holden Patient Advocacy Award was presented at an Awards Reception held in conjunction with the 2022 Conference of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) in Baltimore, Maryland on November 2, 2022. Richard Lane/Robert Holden Patient…
American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence October 16-20, 2004 – Orlando, Florida
ByAdminAdmin 04/03/202320th Anniversary National Methadone Conference American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence October 16-20, 2004 – Orlando, Florida Saturday: October 16, 2004 Preconference Events The Certified Methadone Advocate Course Sunday: October 17, 2004 Special Meeting Patient Support Community and Education Project Meeting Monday: October 18, 2004 NAMA Organizational Meeting Wednesday: October 20, 2004 Workshop…
We Remember
ByAdminAdmin 09/17/2022Hector Valentin Maldonado February 14, 1942 – August 14, 2003 Acting President, 1996 – 1998 Acting Treasurer, 1995 – 1996 Vice President, 1989 – 1996 Hector Maldonado was a founding member of NAMA. He was a member of the committee during the first year that met when patients and professionals discussed the need to start…
National Alliance of Methadone Advocates
ByAdminAdmin 02/12/2023NAMA is an organization composed of methadone patients and health care professionals that are supporters of quality opiate agonist treatment. We have thousands of members worldwide with a network of international affiliated organizations and chapters in many places in the United States. The primary objective of NAMA is to advocate for the patient in treatment…
NAMA Policy Statement: Discharge From Treatment for Drug Use
ByAdminAdmin 04/23/2022It must be emphasized that methadone maintenance treatment is a medical treatment for narcotic addiction. Recent research has found that abstinent former heroin users have irregularities within their immune and endocrine systems. However, these irregularities are normalized with methadone maintenance. This further underscores that methadone maintenance is a medical treatment for a medical condition that…
Office Based Opioid Treatment
ByAdminAdmin 04/17/2023Treatment 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)