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American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Washington, D.C. ~ April 13-16, 2003 Hot Topic: Administrative Detox Facilitator: Joe Neuberger Delaware NAMA Bitch and Gripe.Com Administrative Detox is our subject. It is a policy whereby methadone patients in treatment are banished from their programs for the umbrella term of “non-compliance.” Now we’re not talking…
Michael Grenga and H. Spencer Nelson are members of NAMA and patients from programs in upstate New York. Grenga, M. and Nelson, H.S. 1995. Methadone Treatment in New York. The Ombudsman (Spring/Summer) No. 3/4: 5-6. When the first methadone programs were set up in this country, one of the biggest factors in allowing these programs to…
The National Alliance of Methadone Advocates supports the NIH Consensus Statement on Effective Treatment of Heroin Addiction that was facilitated by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Health. The imprecate of this special statement should be understood in order to realize the impact that it can have on methadone maintenance…
NAMA WebsiteMethadone.orgPages to Remember State Methadone Authorities Education Series New Federal Regulations Final Rule Federal and State Regulations & Resources Don’t miss an important phone call ever again! Use Call Wave to tell you when the phone is ringing.and who is on the other end and if you should pick it up. If it is…
FALSE! Current research shows that doses below 60 mg/day are “not effective and hence not appropriate” and that low dose policies for pregnant and non-pregnant patients are associated with increased drug use as well as reduced program retention. Medical withdrawal of opioid dependent women is not recommended in pregnancy because of increased risk to the…
The next few years will be important and exciting for methadone maintenance treatment. On May 17, 2001 the oversight of methadone was officially removed from the FDA and handed over to the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. We are currently in a3-year transition period during which CSAT is slowly setting policy which includes accreditation of…