Seven Policies Required to Conquer Addiction in our Lifetime By Johnny Allem, The Johnson Institute (2004).  Know Your Rights a Center for Substance Abuse Treatment publication (2007).  Recovery Month Resources for Recovery Month. What does recovery mean to you Lessons from the recovery experience for research and practice by Alexandre B. Laudet. Published in the Journal of Substance Abuse…

How can I help NAMA-R? Here’s how. Join NAMA-R Sounds simple really especially when patients, family, professionals, policy makers, state methadone authorities, students and so on depend on NAMA for information and help. But for some reason many think that others will do it or they forget. NAMA depends on membership dues to pay for…

National Alliance of Methadone Advocates The Pharmacology of Methadone Ignorance about methadone abounds. Professionals working in the field receive very little or no training at all about the very medication that they will be administering. Rarely is addiction viewed as a disease and under the domain of the medical profession. Even the medical profession does…

Richard Lane was a long-term heroin user who, upon release from prison in 1967 helped to start Man Alive, one of the Nation’s first methadone treatment programs. In 1974, he became Executive Director of the program and later served as Vice President of the American Methadone Treatment Association. He served on several committees and was…

Issues To Focus On Massachusetts Restores Methadone Funding Highlights from a compromise budget plan unveiled by House and Senate leaders on Thursday The $22.3 billion plan would: Restore Medicaid funding for 36,000 people under MassHealth Basic; Preserve a popular prescription drug coverage program for the elderly; Repeal the voter-approved Clean Elections law; Tighten the Quinn…

Methadone maintenance treatment has been the most effective treatment for addiction to heroin resulting the cessation of heroin use and criminal behavior. Prior to the development of methadone maintenance treatment over 28 years ago narcotic addiction was considered incurable and a behavioral disorder under the control of law enforcement. Drs. Dole and Nyswander brought the…