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Methadone Advocacy The National Alliance of Methadone Advocates (NAMA) We encourage all supporters of methadone treatment, patient and non-patient, to become Certified You do not have to be a patient to be a methadone advocate. Fifteen Years ago when NAMA first started, methadone advocacy was a few committed A few mistakes were made but the same mistake was seldom made twice. The result Methadone Advocacy is no longer a few committed individuals. Hundreds of people with |
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The Coalition for Methadone Choice is attempting to prevent Mayor Giuliani from ‘detoxing’ more than 2000 patients and threatening treatment for thousands more. We are looking for: Methadone maintenance patients to participate in public education and/or lobbying. Patients at city-run programs to join in legal efforts to save their treatment. Anyone who…
NAMA is an organization composed of methadone patients and health care professionals that are supporters of quality opiate agonist treatment. We have thousands of members worldwide with a network of international affiliated organizations and chapters in many places in the United States. The primary objective of NAMA is to advocate for the patient in treatment…
Not just in substance abuse, mental health, and AIDS services do methadone patients face routine discrimination. San Francisco MUNI will not allow methadone patients to drive its buses, even though an important legal ruling in New York overturned a similar policy (Beazer vs New York City Transit Authority, 1975). Not just in those instances but…
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,…
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Advocacy The National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery (NAMA-R) holds the view that every individual who believes in Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) is at least a potential Certified MAT Advocate (CMA). We encourage all supporters of MAT, patient and non-patient, to become Certified MAT Advocates so that all energies directed toward the advancement of…
