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Make This One of Your Monthly Tasks! Write Your Representatives! Write to your representative in Congress and tell them that methadone saved your life and that it works. You do not have to sign your name you can make up a name like “Mary Methadone” or “Tommy Treatment” and say that you cannot sign your…
Press Release October 27, 2004 Contact: Joycelyn Woods (212) 595-6262 A Methadone Treatment Center in Alabama, “Shelby County Treatment Center” is under fire. After four trials, with no testimony or witnesses against them, a local county Judge granted a permanent injunction and says they have to stay closed. The State of Alabama that grants permission…
STOP METHADONE IGNORANCE It is not uncommon for individuals with a long history of illicit opiate use to remain in methadone treatment as a long term patient. Many often say that without methadone treatment they would probably be dead. Other forms of treatment were not effective and they had come to believe that they would…
SUMMARY Methadone prescribing increased tenfold in the last four years in Belgium. This has been made possible through involvement of general practitioners in methadone treatment. Drug overdoses, crime and even presence of methadone on the black market have decreased at the same time. Introduction During the last four years, methadone consumption in Belgium increased tenfold…
Presented at the Policy Makers Luncheon National Methadone Conference St. Louis, October 7-10, 2001 Accreditation (2001-2005) CSAT implemented new federal standards for accrediting methadone treatment programs on May 18, 2001. I submitted AMTA’s testimony in support of accreditation during my presentation to the Federal Interagency Narcotic Policy Review Board on November 1, 1999. The primary…
Education Series Number 2 April 1991 Rod Sorge is an AIDS activist and as a member of ACT-UP helped to start their Needle Exchange in New York City. As editor of Health/PAC Bulletin he wrote this aricle on drug policy, AIDS and harm reduction. We have understood HIV transmission for years. The routes are obvious,…