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Federal Regulations & Documents Code of Federal Regulations. Opioid Drugs in Maintenance and Detoxification Treatment of Opiate Addiction; Final Rule 21 CRF 291, 42 CRF 8. (Text) Federal Regulations (PDF Format) . Code of Federal Regulations. Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records (PDF Format). CSAT Accreditation Page. CSAT Guidelines for the accreditation of…

NAMA wishes to thank the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) for their Support of Certified Methadone Advocate Training at the 2003 AATOD Conference in Washington DC. NAMA wishes to offer special thanks to Mallinckrodt  and American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD).

Sponsored by American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Washington, D.C. ~ April 13-16, 2003 Saturday, April 12, 2003 Pre-Conference Session  NAMA offers special thanks to Mallinckrodt. We also wish to thank Haworth Press, Vista Pharmaceuticals, Bendiner Labs, NIDA, and CSAT without whose support the first Certified Methadone Advocate (CMA) Training Course would not…

FALSE! Current research shows that doses below 60 mg/day are “not effective and hence not appropriate” and that low dose policies for pregnant and non-pregnant patients are associated with increased drug use as well as reduced program retention. Medical withdrawal of opioid dependent women is not recommended in pregnancy because of increased risk to the…

  Basic Pharmacology: How Methadone Works? Introduction To Three Part Series By J.T. Payte, Jeffrey Smith and Joycelyn Woods J. Thomas Payte, M.D. is Medical Director and Founder of Drug Dependence Associates in San Antonio, Texas, Chair of the Maintenance Medications Committee of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a member of NAMAs Advisory…