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Anthony Scro is a NAMA volunteer, founder of the NAMA affiliate Association for the Betterment of Addiction Treatment and Education (ABATE) and has been a methadone advocate for over 20 years. It goes on and on. It seems like it may never end. We’ve all heard the same questions. Suffered the same humiliation. “When are…

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…

Treatment 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)

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It 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…