LATEST REPORTS Monday, April 16, 2001   April 2000, Governor Dean Promises To Veto Any Methadone Bill  (but finally gives in if he is allowed to rewrite the recommendations of his own experts).   Act 123 An Act Relating To Treatment Of Opiate Addiction (this links you to Vermont’s website and full text of the…

Herman Joseph, PhD 1931 – 2019 May 28, 2019 May 6, 2019 Dr. Joseph was one of the important influences on addiction and criminal justice during the latter 20th and early 21st century.  For more than 50 years he has worked as a social research scientist in the interrelated fields of addiction, treatment, criminal justice,…

Chair: Dr. P. Kishore, MD, MPH, CMA (Boston NAMA) Committee Members Paul Bowman, CMA  Cheri Jarvis, CMA  The HCV Committee was created to empower methadone patients through education and advocacy and to provide support for those that do test positive for Hepatitis C. What Is Hepatitis C? Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. Although…

MARS services include: training in medication assisted recovery, a mix of culturally appropriate support groups, drug and alcohol free social activities, recovery celebratory events, peer leader training and mentoring, and a peer council to help direct the development of the project. The most important part of MARS is the Core Training in Addiction and how…

Resources  Equal Parity On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. This puts in place comprehensive health insurance reforms that will roll out over four years and beyond. Health reform includes several key steps in the next 4 years. Medicaid will be expanded to allow more people at the lowest…

Methadone treatment is entering a new era giving methadone patients opportunities that they never had before. Our views and issues are being taken seriously by many and it is important that advocacy organizations continue their important role as the patient’s voice. It is because of the hard work of many of the NAMA chapters that…