United States California Methadone- A Legitimate Treatment Alternative Organization MALTA P.O. Box 1716 Marysville, CA 95901 Newsletter: The Malta Messenger Subscription: Donation apprecited Contact Persons: Diane Fleury-Seaman & Don Seaman Colorado Southern Colorado Affiliate of the National Alliance of Methadone Advocates (SCA-NAMA) 129 South Institute Colorado Springs, CO 80902 Contact Person: Pete Seal District Of…

Nominations Open for the 2022 Richard Lane/Robert Holden Advocacy Award! NAMA Recovery    AATOD Lane Holden Award    May 1, 2022  |  0 Richard Lane was a long-term heroin user who, upon release from prison in 1967, was instrumental in establishing one of the Nation’s first opioid treatment programs. In 1974, he became the Executive…

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…

Dr Andrew Byrne, Medical Practitioner, Drug and Alcohol New South Wales, Australia Email – [email protected] September 23, 2003 This study randomised consenting heroin dependent subjects to receive one month’s treatment with (i) buprenorphine, (ii) buprenorphine/naloxone or (iii) placebo. For a further 11 months, surviving (sic) patients were followed in an open-label manner for primary outcome…

For years it had been suspected that opiates had specific binding sites in the brain. There were several attempts to locate these sites, but the existing technologies were unable to distinguish between the non specific binding to tissue and the specific binding to receptors. It must be mentioned here that the first attempt to actually…

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