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NAMA Website
Methadone.org
Pages to Remember
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Fax to Email
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Get your own fax number to put on your stationary and it is free! The fax is forwarded to your email address which you can read and print with special software provided by eFax.
You have a Fax? This is a great back up to your real fax and a way to scan documents into your computer.
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NAMA Directory
Download a drafy of the current directory of affiliates and chapters, committees, directors and officers.
Download Here
Note: This file is in Ebook format. Download to a folder and click on it like an application to use.
This file is being updated and the Topica List will be notified when it is completed.
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Join iGive for NAMA
If you shop on the internet you can get great shopping deals
and have part of the price go to NAMA. And you can take a tax deduction for
yourself, too.
NAMA gets money for every new member so even if you don’t shop just by joining you can help.
Every chapter should join iGive and encourage their members to join and if they shop on the internet to use the iGive Mall.
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Download Start a Chapter Manual
Download the manual to Start a Methadone Advocacy Group (NAMA Chapter) in eBook form.
Download Manual
Download Instructions
to be a Chapter
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AATOD Fact Sheets
AATOD has some excellent Fact Sheets about methadone. Check them out!
*Why Methadone Treatment Works
*Drug Court Fact Sheet
*Expert Panel
Clinical Guidelines on LAAM
*AATOD’s 5-Year Plan*
*Note: Also on the NAMA Website in the AATOD 2001 Conference – Policy Makers Luncheon. You can download in a Word file.
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Instructions For This Page
The purpose of this website is to help NAMA chapters and affiliaters with advocacy and internet tools. You will find links to important websites, downloads of materials that all NAMA affiliates and chapters should have and various resources to help keep you informed and make your work easier. If you know of a resource that should be here send an email to Rokki Baker the Chapter Coordinator.
The sections that have a white background contains information and resources that ALL chapters and affiliates should have. You should also update this information periodically as it consists of policy statements and other information that relate to NAMA’s Mission.
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First Time – New Chapters and Affiliates
Download Your Affiliate Package (Top Right Column).
Then download or follow the instructions for all sections in white these sections contain materials and information that all affiliates and chapters should have.
Sections that are not white contain important resources also and you should review them in case you may need the information now or at a later date.
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Chapters/Affiliates with Tenure
Many of you have dated Affiliates Packages and many of the materials originally sent to you either have new additions or been updated. It woiuld be a good idea to download the Affiliates Package if it has been awhile since you received it.
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Chapter and Affiliate List
Join Here
The Topica Listserve is
NAMA’s Official Communication Tool
The Topica Listserve
All the chapters and affiliates that are on the internet are subscribed to the NAMA Methadone Advocates list. The Topica Listserve is a private list only for the NAMA network. On occassion there will be discussions that should be kept amongst ourselves. Usually this will be noted, however you may on occassion habve to use your own discresion in evaluation whether something should be made public.
Subscribing From This Website
You can subscribe by entering your email address into the box above. If you do not connect to Topica try to “Refresh” your window or click the “Back Button” and try again. If you receive a message follow the directions. A common problem may the the settings of your browser. Since this is not a public list you cannot go to Topica and subscribe.
An Alternative Way to Subscribe
If you have trouble subscribing here then click here to request an invitation and send an email to Rokki Baker to tell her you could not subscribe to the Topica Listserve and have requested an invitation.
When your receive the invitation click on “Reply” to confirm your invitation.
Basic Information About the List
How Does the List Work?
There are many lists and/or groups on the internet and a List is one way for a group to share information and to help each other. When a message is sent to the list it goes to everyone on the list. You use an email address for the list which is
- To send a message:
- [email protected]
- To subscribe
- [email protected]
- To unsubscribe
- See the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any message
For more information about how to use the Topica Listserve and to access the archive visit: http://www.topica.com/lists/namaadvocates
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Together we can make a difference.
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Affiliates Package
The Affiliates Package is in several parts and you will have to go to a page to download all the pieces.
All the forms are in pdf format and in one single zip file. They are masters ready to use to make copies from if you wish to.
All the Policy Statements are in
pdf format and in one single zipfile. They are masters ready to use to make copies from if you wish to.
Policy Statements 9 and 10 are in Ebook.
The Education Series are each in their own pdf file and you will have to download them one at a time. They are masters ready to use to make
copies from. They are also available in a large zip file.
You will need the Adobe Reader to access the pdf files. To download the Adobe Reader Click Here
To go to the
Affiliate Package Download Page
Click Here
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Together we can change the world!
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Do You Have A Website?
NAMA Affiliate & Chapter Networking Webring
All Affiliates and Chapters belong to the NAMA Affiliate & Chapter Networking Webring. It is easy to join it and is one way to get traffic to your website.
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What is a Webring? A Webring is a group of websites (or page) linked together and usually there is a topic that joins the websites together. For example you will find webrings on business opportunities, Windows, travel, cooking and just about every topic you can think of. This is a private webring that to be a member of you must be a NAMA affiliate or chapter. All of the websites in the webring will believe in the goals of NAMA. Therefore when someone wants to learn about methadone and patient right’s visiting the websites in the NAMA Affiliate and Chapter Webring would be one way to learn and find information.
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How to Join
Home Page Url is: https://www.methadone.org/namaring1.htm.
To join the webring you will need to click here and follow the instructions. You can return to this page when you are finished.
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Email Signature
Instructions to New Affiliates
As a NAMA chapter or affiliate we ask that you include recognition of your
affiliation in your email signature and elsewhere. There is a reason for doing this: throughout the world
NAMA is well known and well respected. By including an acknowledgement
professionals see it and know it. It will confer upon you immediate recognition.
Responsibility: Using the NAMA name also means that you must always act
professional and responsible. We all understand how easily the NAMA name can be
tarnished just because we are patients. Stigma and prejudice will be with us for some time.
US Groups: NAMA is recognized the most in the US and any US groups should include in their
email signature that they are a chapter of NAMA. You can also include “Together, we can make a difference.”
and a link to the NAMA website if you do not have one.
International: International groups are veiwed at NAMA as equals because they
are a national organization like NAMA. It is not and never was NAMA’s intent to upsurp their
position. International groups have through the years become associated with NAMA because
we were there and at times the only kind of network to communicate through. By reaching out
to international groups we all gain more power and can use this to help the countries that
have little or no access to methadone treatment, punitive regulations or not patient oriented. Here are
some examples that international groups can include in their signature, however the decision
of what to put is yours as an organization.
- “An affiliate of the international NAMA Network – Together, we can make a difference.”
- “We believe in the goals of the National Alliance of Methadone Advocates”.
- “Together, we can make a difference. Together we can change the world!”
If you have any questions about this please contact Rokki Baker – the chapter coordinator.
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SubscribeTo Zines and Lists
AT Forum is a free methadone newsletter, includes patient issues.
NIDA Notes one of the best newsletters available from NIDA and it’s free.
Index to Archives
JTO Direct published by Join Together is a daily zine with announcements, reviews, events, etc.
eNewsletter the Drug Policy Alliance weekly zine with news and information for drug reformers.
DrugSense published by the Media Awareness Project it contains news clippings about primarily drug reform, includes methadone.
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Websites
Advocacy Websites
Click for Website
Addiction Treatment Watchdog
http://www.atwatchdog.org/
Advocates for Recovery through Medicine
ARM http://www.arm-advocates.org/
Methadone Information Exchange
http://www.mindspring.com/~methinfex/
International Drug Users Information Exchange
http://www.elcds.demon.co.uk/idu_dir.htm
Faces and Voices of Recovery
http://www.recoveryadvocacy.org/
Federal Government Websites
Click for Website
SAMHSA – “http://www.samhsa.gov/
CSAT – http://www.treatment.org/
NIDA – http://www.nida.nih.gov/
ONDCP – http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/
Government Printing Office – http://www.access.gpo.gov/index.html
NCADI – http://www.health.org/
US Senate – http://www.senate.gov/
House of Representatives – http://www.house.gov/
Program Locator – http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/
Methadone and
Methadone-related Organizations
Click for Website
American Assn of Treatment for Opiate Dependency AATOD
http://www.aatod.org/
American Medical Association AMA
http://www.ama-assn.org/
American Public Health Association
APHA
http://www.apha.org/
American Society of Addiction Medicine
ASAM
http://www.asam.org/Frames.htm
Join Together
http://www.jointogether.org/
National Academy of Science
http://www.nas.edu/
Information
Click for Website
Addiction Treatment Forum
http://www.atforum.com/
NIH Consensus Statement
http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/108/108_intro.htm
Lindesmith Center’s Focus on Methadone
http://www.lindesmith.org/library/focal13.html
Consumer’s Union Report on Methadone
http://www.drugtext.org/reports/cu/CU17.html
Harm Reduction Coalition
http://www.harmreduction.org/
Visit Websites of the Advisory Board
Click for Website
J.T. Payte M.D.
http://home.swbell.net/jtpayte/
Marc Shinderman M.D.
http://www.capqualitycare.com/
Robert Newman M.D.
http://www.opiateaddictionrx.info/
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Licit and Illicit Drugs
The Consumer Union’s Report
This is the entire book – chapter by chapter that you can download. The first half of the book is about methadone treatment – the conditions that led up to expanding methadone and the early research of Drs. Dole and Neswander with interviews throughout. Edited by E.M. Brecher and the Editors of the Consumer’s Union
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