Executive Report-4

Nominations Open for the 2022 Richard Lane/Robert Holden Advocacy Award! May 1, 2022 Richard Lane was a long-term heroin user who, upon release from prison in 1967, was instrumental in establishing one of the Nation’s first opioid treatment programs. In 1974, he became the Executive Director of Man Alive and later served as Vice President…

Telling The Untold Methadone Success Stories This Treatment Works “There may be no more effective way to contain heroin abuse than methadone, a drug that blocks an addict’s craving. Yet new efforts to expand use of methadone have inspired new attacks on it, attacks that deny common sense.“ -The New York Times, April 8, 1990…

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NAMA IS COMMITTED TO: Promoting quality methadone maintenance treatment as the most effective modality for the treatment of heroin addiction.  Working to dispel the ignorance regarding MMT which plagues both treatment professionals and the general public.  Fighting discrimination perpetrated against methadone maintenance patients.  Struggling to destigmatize the treatment which has given us back our lives. …

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) Telephone (240) 276-2717 1Choke Cherry Road, Room 2-1065 Facsimile (240) 276-1630 Rockville, Maryland 20857 E-mail: [email protected] Division of Pharmacologic Therapies DPT C. Todd Rosendale, MA Public Health Advisor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FACSIMILE AInformation Memorandum@   This facsimile is intended only for the addressee…

The Associated Press State & Local Wire, May 3, 2005. DATELINE: Baltimore The state health department has stopped running laboratory tests for Maryland’s methadone clinics, removing a safeguard against misuse of the drug, potentially worsening what authorities say is a growing problem. Methadone, a heroin replacement medication, is used by about 13,400 recovering addicts in…