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Education Series Number 9 January 1999 Letter Supplement O N Y O U R L E T T E R H E A D Dear Doctor: The bearer of this letter is a patient in a methadone maintenance treatment program. Methadone patients frequently need treatment for other medical, surgical, and dental conditions. At times the health professional…
The Mayor’s Turn Around
TURNAROUND RUDY PUTS $5M IN METHADONE CLINICS By SUSAN RUBINOWITZ New York Post October 6, 1999 Mayor Giuliani has backed off further from his vow to end methadone treatment for heroin addicts – funding a $5 million expansion of the city’s clinics. The money is going to methadone centers at all 11 public hospitals to…
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…
The President’s Office
Methadone treatment is entering a new era giving methadone patients opportunities that they never had before. Our views and issues are being taken seriously by many and it is important that advocacy organizations continue their important role as the patient’s voice. It is because of the hard work of many of the NAMA chapters that…
Month: April 2022
DOJ publishes guidance on Opioid Use Disorder and the Americans with Disabilities Act April 15, 2022 “The opioid crisis poses an extraordinary challenge to communities throughout our country. The Department of Justice (the Department) has responded with a comprehensive approach prioritizing prevention, enforcement, and treatment. This includes enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act (Ada), which…
Richard Lane/Robert Holden Methadone Advocacy Award
Richard Lane was a long-term heroin user who, upon release from prison in 1967 helped to start Man Alive, one of the Nation’s first methadone treatment programs. In 1974, he became Executive Director of the program and later served as Vice President of the American Methadone Treatment Association. He served on several committees and was…