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This is a super-duper double issue of The Ombudsman and I think that you’ll agree with me that it is the best one yet. With each issue I worry because I believe that the issue is so good that it just could not be “topped” and I don’t want the next issue to be disappointing….

Letter to the editor RoanokeTimes (in publication) January 3, 2005 Give some credit to methadone treatment. In response to your Dec. 19 news article, “Are drug deaths decreasing?”: I’d like to make an observation. I’m struck that in trying to find an answer as to why the “drug deaths” may be decreasing, there’s a glaring…

Ira Sobel, M.A. is Staff Writer and Researcher for Methadone Awareness, Editor-at-Large for The Ombudsman and has written articles for the newsletters of many of NAMA’s affiliates.Sobel, I. 1995. Methaphobia: Us and Them. The Ombudsman (Spring/Summer) No. 3/4: 5-6. Have you ever been discriminated against because of being on methadone? Were you ever blackballed by…

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…