We Speak Methadone (and buprenorphine) – Information

Joe Neuberger, Delaware NAMA James DePasquale, Long Beach Patient Committee This roundtable examined the practice of “administrative detoxification” from programs, and explored the conflicts between what programs often perceive as a necessary evil and patients often perceive as a source of anxiety and constant threat to their treatment. Should administrative detox even be program policy…

Dear Advocates: Since its beginning over 50 years ago methadone maintenance has been the most effective treatment for narcotic addiction. Evaluations worldwide over the past five decades have shown that methadone maintenance is the most successful treatment for opiate addiction, resulting in the termination both of opiate drug use and of criminal behavior.  In spite…

The bias and misunderstandings about methadone as a medication often result in methadone patients being refused medical care (Umbricht-Schneiter, 1994; Zweben and Sorensen, 1988). Another common scenario is that their medication is used to coerce or manipulate methadone patients into medical treatment (Blansfield, 1992). In other areas of medicine such actions would be considered unethical…

2003 Connolly, James. Methadone Saves Lives (Letter). Scranton Times Tribune (01/08/2003). (Pennsylvania NAMA) Faces and Voices of Recovery. Brief Summary of the Addiction is NOT Fashionable Camapign. International protest against Dior Addict products and marketing, January 15, 2003. City of Detroit Resolution. National Alliance of Methadone Advocates. Letter to the Governor, Oregon January 17, 2003….

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For years it had been suspected that opiates had specific binding sites in the brain. There were several attempts to locate these sites, but the existing technologies were unable to distinguish between the non specific binding to tissue and the specific binding to receptors. It must be mentioned here that the first attempt to actually…