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Over the years methadone providers and patients have begun using client in place of patient. While this maybe well intended NAMA is concerned that the results could become damaging to methadone treatment, and most especially to patients. The use of client is deprogating to methadone patients, inferring that their addiction to narcotics is their fault…
Dear Advocates: Since its beginning over 50 years ago methadone maintenance has been the most effective treatment for narcotic addiction. Evaluations worldwide over the past five decades have shown that methadone maintenance is the most successful treatment for opiate addiction, resulting in the termination both of opiate drug use and of criminal behavior. In spite…
The Basic Advocacy Training Session The training for certification includes a variety of topics to give advocates a well-grounded understanding of MAT, research, regulations and laws that protect MAT patients and programs. Medication Assisted Treatment Basic clinical information about methadone and buprenorphine treatment. Regulations and Accreditation The federal regulations will be explained: What they are and…
Unifying the Treatment Community This special pre-conference meeting is divided into two sessions – a morning and afternoon session. These sessions have been developed by the Advocacy Coalition: National Alliance of Methadone Advocates (NAMA), Advocates for Recovery through Medicine (ARM), Advocates For the Integration of Recovery and Methadone (AFIRM), Virginia Alliance of Methadone Advocates (VAMA),…
Exciting Developments in the UK Alan Joyce Methadone Alliance November 21, 2003 There are exciting things happening in the UK that the Methadone Alliance has been involved with. In the UK there is a type of General Practitioner (Doctor, in what you call ‘office based practice’, what we call ‘General practice’), who gain additional qualifications…
Issues To Focus On LAAM Manufacture to Be Discontinued August 23, 2003 Washington, D.C. Roxanne the manufacturer of LAAM has informed the FDA that manufacture of the medication is being discontinued. Distribution will continue until the inventory is depleted. Roxanne estimates this to be in early January 2004. The reason for the action is the…