This bibliography is a complete and authoritative list of all sound, scientific, peer-reviewed research that indicates that methadone maintenance does not work.
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Optimizing response to methadone maintenance treatment: use of higher-dose methadone.
J Psychoactive Drugs 1999 Apr-Jun;31(2):95-102 Maxwell S, Shinderman M Center for Addictive Problems Chicago, Illinois 60610 Using signs, symptoms and serum methadone levels to guide evaluation, the authors treated 164 patients in a methadone maintenance program with doses of methadone exceeding 100 mg/d. The mean dose of these higher dose (HD) patients was 211 mg/d…
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Let’s Stop The Insanity by Anthony Scro
Anthony Scro is a NAMA volunteer, founder of the NAMA affiliate Association for the Betterment of Addiction Treatment and Education (ABATE) and has been a methadone advocate for over 20 years. It goes on and on. It seems like it may never end. We’ve all heard the same questions. Suffered the same humiliation. “When are…
How Methadone Works by Joycelyn Woods
National Alliance of Methadone Advocates 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…
Registering for Training and Certification
You have to register for the Certified Methadone Advocate Training course through NAMA. The training course is one day. The first training will be at the AATOD Conference in Washington on Saturday April 12, 2003. The cost of course is $100 and includes 2003 membership in NAMA. Everyone who pre-registers and completes the requirements will…