The First Methadone Advocacy Conference

Contact the Executive Director NAMA Recovery needs help with two major things: 1. Website, 2. Funding. Programmers to help with the website. Funding Membership Drives or just asking your program if you can hang up some NAMA Recovery flyers that can bring in new members and of course spread the word about what we do….

20th Anniversary National Methadone Conference American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence October 16-20, 2004 – Orlando, Florida Saturday: October 16, 2004 Preconference Events The Certified Methadone Advocate Course Sunday: October 17, 2004 Special Meeting Patient Support Community and Education Project Meeting Monday: October 18, 2004 NAMA Organizational Meeting Wednesday: October 20, 2004 Workshop…

The Pharmacology of Methadone Ignorance about methadone abounds. Professionals working in the field receive very little or no training at all about the very medication that they will be administering. Rarely is addiction viewed as a disease and under the domain of the medical profession. Even the medical profession does not understand addiction, and most…

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The dilution of methadone with water was initiated as a result of the first federal methadone regulations because it was believed that this policy would reduce the diversion of methadone. While initially this policy may have had an impact within a short time most prospective buyers learning that methadone was now diluted with water and…

Education Series Number 4 August 1994 Methadone, HIV Infection and Immune Function by Herman Joseph 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,…