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Time: September 26, 1998 9:30 AM to 5 PM Place: Roosevelt Hospital Auditorium 1000 Tenth Avenue between 58-59th Street New York City Topics: A conference for methadone patients and by methadone patients. This important conference gives a voice to the voiceless. Topics discussed will be stigma, prejudice, misunderstandings about methadone, new regulations, physician prescribing…
Sniffing, Snorting Drugs May Raise HCV Risk by Theresa Waldron Reuters Health 4 Jul. 2003 Source: Journal of Medical Virology. 2003;70:387-390. People who snort or sniff heroin in combination with cocaine may be at increased risk of developing the liver infection hepatitis C, according to a new study. Thomas Kresina, a spokesman for the National…
TRAINING COURSE Sponsored By: The National Alliance of Methadone Advocates Place: New York, New York Date: May 13, 2004 Where: Phillips Ambulatory Care Pavilion Beth Israel Medical Center Time: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM To Register complete the Registration Form and send it in with your payment: $75.00 CASAC/CPP/CPS training only $100.00 CASAC/CPP/CPS training plus Certified Methadone Advocate (CMA)…
First the ground rules! In every thing NAMA does the rights and dignity of the individual patient take precedence. It is never, ever, OK to violate that rule no matter how important the issue. NAMA has not and will never serve as an apologist for poor treatment. Everyone whether you want to be a NAMA …
The Advocacy Training Session The training for certification includes a variety of topics to give advocates a well-grounded understanding of methadone treatment, research, regulations and laws that protect methadone patients and programs. Addiction and Methadone The biological constructs of addiction will be explained in a way that can be understood by lay people (i.e. opiate receptors,…
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…