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…

Page 4098 Federal Register Vol. 66, No. 11 / Wednesday, January 17, 2001 / Rules and Regulations (i) Unsupervised or “take-home” use. To limit the potential for diversion of opioid agonist treatment medications to the illicit market, opioid agonist treatment medications dispensed to patients for unsupervised use shall be subject to the following requirements. (1)…

National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery CONFIDENTIAL Grievance/Compliment Report All information that is provided will be held strictly confidential in the same manner as the patient protections described in the U.S. Federal Confidentiality Regulations 42 CFR and the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (the Privacy Rule) as established by the Department of…

A Commentary on Federal Policy for Patients Receiving Over 100 mgs (Revised) There are many misperceptions and misunderstanding about the federal regulations and particularly when it comes to issues regarding raising the dose over 100 mgs. Prior to the HIV epidemic in order to raise a patient’s dose it was required for the physician to…

Education Series Number 5.3 February 2001 (Revised) Joycelyn Woods has a graduate degree in neuroscience and psychopharmacology. She has published in neuroscience journals and is recognized internationally for her methadone advocacy work. She is a recipient of the “Richard Lane Methadone Advocacy Award.” Methadone Metabolism Methadone was once considered to be pretty much the same…

Peter T. Seal is President of the Southern Colorado Alliance of the National Alliance of Methadone Advocates (SCA-NAMA) in Colorado Springs, CO. He has worked in the field of methadone as a counselor and trainer for over 15 years. How many times have you heard that before?! Little did we know! It seems the world…