Managed Care: Who Will Pay?

There are many misperceptions and misunderstanding about the federal regulations and particularly when it comes to issues regarding raising the dose over 100 mgs. Prior to the HIV epidemic in order to raise a patient’s dose it was required for the physician to contact the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for permission. In the early…

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 History of Methadone Maintenance Treatment The Discovery of Endorphins How Methadone Works 5. Methadone As Normal Medicine The History of Methadone Maintenance Treatment What is Methadone Maintenance Treatment? A) The most effective treatment for heroin and other opioid dependence? B) A means of reducing the transmission of the AIDS virus? C) The most progressive…

Treatment INDEX   OBOT PUBLICATIONS- Federal Code, Manuals, Teaching Packets, and other OBOT information.   BASIC INFORMATION FOR PHYSICIANS   NAMA’s Comments to the Federation of State Medical Boards   Physicians’ Guide: Opioid Agonist Medical Maintenance Treatment   Using Buprenorphine for Office Based Opioid Treatment (pdf file)   Manual For Methadone Medical Management (pdf file)

Every patient, in fact every member of the methadone community, has a right to expect that someone who represents themselves as a methadone advocate be knowledgeable in all aspects of methadone treatment. NAMA has created the Methadone Advocate Training and Methadone Advocate Certification for a whole host of reasons. Most of which we will discuss…

Starting your own program sounds like an impossible goal — while it will be hard work it is doable! You will not be first patient to open a program and hopefully, you will not be the last. The primary reason for a patient opening a program is that it will give you and the patients…