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Best Practices: Treatment of Opiate Dependence Conference Update   Physician Training for Use of Buprenorphine   The conference planning committee working with the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the American Academy of Addictions Psychiatry will be offering the following 8-hour physician workshop during the Best Practices: Treatment of Opiate Dependence Conference, scheduled for March…

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National Alliance of Methadone Advocates June 14, 2004 Contact: Joycelyn Sue Woods, M.A., C.M.A., President Phone/Fax (212) 595-NAMA/6262 Walter Ginter, C.M.A., Vice President Phone (203) 233-8266 In a few days the first proposals requesting funds from President Bush’s One Hundred Million Dollar Access to Recovery Program are due in Washington. The purpose of these grants…

________________________________ Your Name ________________________________ Address ________________________________ City, State, Zip Date____________________________         Honorable Senator  ________________ United States Senate Washington, DC  20515 Dear Senator _____________________: On February 11, 1999 Senator McCain introduced S423 the Addiction Free Treatment Act. This legislation was intended as a political assault on the Office of National Drug Control Policy…

The Coalition for Methadone Choice is attempting to prevent Mayor Giuliani from ‘detoxing’ more than 2000 patients and threatening treatment for thousands more. We are looking for:                 Methadone maintenance patients to participate in public education and/or lobbying.                 Patients at city-run programs to join in legal efforts to save their treatment.                 Anyone who…

Letter to the editor RoanokeTimes (in publication) January 3, 2005 Give some credit to methadone treatment. In response to your Dec. 19 news article, “Are drug deaths decreasing?”: I’d like to make an observation. I’m struck that in trying to find an answer as to why the “drug deaths” may be decreasing, there’s a glaring…