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Don’t forget! If you want to take the training you have to download a copy of the registration form and mail it to NAMA with $100. That includes $25 towards your 2003 NAMA membership. Download registration in pdf    Download Registration as Word Pay by Credit Card and Reserve Now You can pay by credit card…

American Methadone Treatment Association1 Opioid Treatment in the 21st Century: Implementing the Vision October 7-10, 2001 St. Louis Advocacy Events and Patient Participation NAMA at AMTA Conference 2001 Sunday, October 7th Pre-conference Meeting 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Unifying the Treatment Community Moderator Todd Rosendale, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Speakers Fred Christie, AFFIRM (President)…

Information on NAMA’s website is not intended as medical advice for individual problems.   Appropriate medical professionals should be consulted regarding addiction and addiction recovery.   Pharmacologic Agents Clinical Signs and Symptoms Comments Drugs That Decrease Methadone Levels Rifampin, phenytoin, carbamazepine, butabarbital sodium, mephobarbital, phenobarbital, secobarbital, ethanol (chronic), disulfiram, urinary acidifiers, ascorbic acid Withdrawal signs Disulfiram…

The Methadone Alliance. Euromethwork Newsletter Mar. 2000, Issue 18. The Methadone Alliance supports people who receive prescribed drugs for the treatment of their drug dependency. We are users and sympathetic professionals working together as equals in a unique initiative to give drug users a voice in the drug policy debate. The Methadone Alliance actively promotes…

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…

Next In Series Studies undertaken over the past two decades, primarily by Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek of The Rockefeller University, and corroborated by other scientists throughout the world have established the long-term medical safety of methadone maintenance treatment (Kreek, 1992; Kreek, 1987; Kreek, 1986; Kreek, 1978; Kreek, 1973; Kreek et al, 1972; Novick, Richman, Friedman…