Methadone Information Exchange
Sites & Resources
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- National Alliance of Methadone Advocates
- The hub of methadone advocacy in the USA. Great site, lots of information and links to more sites.
- Addiction Treatment Forum
- "Reporting what has happened, is happening, and will likely happen in addiction treatment." Their focus is on methadone and opiates. Give feedback on the Question of the Month, subscribe to ATF's free quarterly newsletter, and read back issues.
- Methadone Today
- Web site of the Methadone Today newsletter and online home of Detroit Organizational Needs in Treatment (DONT), A NAMA affiliate. An excellent site full of important information including back issues of the Methadone Today newsletter. For subscriptions and information contact the editor, Beth Francisco at yourtype@tir.com.
- Methadone Awareness
- A NAMA affiliate. Methadone Awareness is a monthly newsletter for patients to express their opinions, feelings, and educate each other about the medication we take. Well put together and great looking. For subscriptions and information contact the editor, Katharine Bolton at KB4MA@aol.com
- Heroin Addiction - An Addicts View
- A very personal look at the author's lifetime of addiction and methadone maintenance treatment in Australia. At this unique site Rose Withers offers her experiences as examples to challange prevailing attitudes about addicts and methadone patients. Also: a cartoon about explaining MMT to children, Recent News, discussion of different treatment modalities, and more.
- Chemical Dependency Research Working Group
- Home of the 'must have' monograph, Methadone Treatment Works: A Compendium For Methadone Maintenance Treatment.
- American Society for Action on Pain (ASAP)
- Information and issues surrounding the treatment of chronic pain. Write to Skip Baker, pain patient and president of ASAP at skipb@widomaker.com. See letter #92, Chronic Pain, from Skip on the letters page.
- Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
- Information on drug policy and the War On Drugs. Studies, facts, history, charts, graphs, statistics, and more.
- J. Thomas Payte, M.D. - Opioid Agonist Treatment Of Addiction
- Dr. Payte is the founder and Medical Director of Drug Dependence Associates, a MMT clinic in San Antonio, Texas, and Editor of the Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions, but he is perhaps best known to MIE users as the author of the "Dear Doctor" letter. In addition to Dear Doctor, the site includes two other letters MMT patients can use. Forced Withdrawal is intended for probation/parole officers. To Whom It May Concern can be given to family, friends, or employers to help them understand methadone maintenance treatment.
- Addiction Recovery Institute (ARI)
- A private methadone clinic in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Their purpose in Cyberspace is to provide a "virtual clinic," a resource where people can get and share information about heroin and other addictions. One of the few treatment providers on-line.
- Chicago Recovery Alliance
- A harm reduction outreach and syringe exchange organization. The site provides a detailed look at their services, their efforts and the results of their work. Very, very impressive.
- Clinical Pharmacology Online
- "This online service utilizes information from our Clinical Pharmacology CD-ROM, a well-reviewed resource in use by thousands of clinicians worldwide."
- INDRO - Institute for the Furtherance of Qualitative Drug Research, Acceptance-Oriented Drug Work, and Rational Drug Policy
- INDRO operates a low-threshold drop-in center for drug users and methadone patients, conducts research projects, produces a book series and publicizes booklets and other material on drug-related issues. Their Worldwide Travel Guide for Methadone Patients is now online. In German and English.
- UCLA Drug Abuse Research Center (DARC)
- "The Drug Abuse Research Center (DARC) is a diverse research organization that investigates psychosocial and epidemiological issues pertaining to drug use and conducts evaluations of interventions for drug dependence."
- American Society of Addiction Medicine
- "The nation's medical specialty society dedicated to educating physicians and improving the treatment of individuals suffering from alcoholism or other addictions."
- National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
- Info info info! A gold mine of information, and if they don't have it online it can be ordered from them for free! Get their catalog.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- For the past two decades, NIDA has been exploring the biomedical and behavioral foundations of drug abuse. Online publications, monographs, research reports, and more. See the report, Heroin: Abuse and Addiction.
- Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
- "CSAT works cooperatively across the private and public treatment spectrum to identify, develop, and support policies, approaches, and programs that enhance and expand treatment services for individuals who abuse alcohol and other drugs and that address individuals' addiction-related problems."
- CSAT Treatment Improvement Exchange
- "[A] ... resource ... to provide information exchange between CSAT staff and State and local alcohol and substance abuse agencies." CSAT TIPS and TAPS on-line, list of State Methadone Authorities, and more.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- SAMHSA's mission is to assure that quality substance abuse and mental health services are available to the people who need them and to ensure that prevention and treatment knowledge is used more effectively in the general health care system.
- Substance Abuse Network of Ontario (SANO)
- In English or French, SANO is an interactive computer network that makes addiction-related information available to people across Ontario. SANO helps professionals and members of the public communicate with each other and gain better access to addictions resources. SANO is a project of the Addiction Research Foundation (ARF).
- Addiction Research Foundation (ARF)
- The Addiction Research Foundation (ARF) is one of North America's pre-eminent facilities for research into alcohol, tobacco and other drug problems. The Foundation's mission is to work with its partners to create and apply knowledge to prevent and reduce the harm associated with alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in Ontario communities.
- Ontario's Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment (DART)
- A treatment directory for Ontario, Canada. (English and French)
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- Methadone List at calyx.net
- Send e-mail to listproc@calyx.net to do any of the following:
- To subscribe -
- Leave the SUBJECT line blank, and in the message BODY type nothing but:
subscribe methadone [yourfirstname] [yourlastname]
Replace [yourfirstname] with your first name, [yourlastname] with your last name.
- To unsubscribe -
- Leave SUBJECT line blank, and in the message BODY type nothing but:
signoff methadone
- To receive the list in digest format -
- Leave SUBJECT line blank, and in the message BODY type nothing but:
set methadone mail digest
- To switch back to individual letter format -
- Leave SUBJECT line blank, and in the message BODY type nothing but:
set methadone mail ack
After you have subscribed, post your messages to list recipients by sending e-mail to methadone@calyx.net. Do not send requests to unsubscribe to this address - see instructions above.
Mail sent to the list can be reviewed by anyone at any time by accessing the list archives at ftp://ns2.calyx.net/pub/mailing-lists/methadone/
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- Methadone Mailing List Chat Room
- By the same fine people at Calyx.net that bring you the Methadone Mailing List. This is a Java based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client that runs in any Java enabled browser, such as Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Opera. Stand alone chat software can also be used by connecting to irc.calyx.net port 6667, channel #methadone.
If you have questions about Internet Relay Chat, visit Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Help for information and IRC software.
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- Addiction Treatment Forum
- "Reporting what has happened, is happening, and will likely happen in addiction treatment." Read back issues and subscribe to ATF's free quarterly newsletter.
- Methadone Awareness Newsletter
- A NAMA affiliate. Methadone Awareness is a monthly newsletter for patients to express their opinions, feelings, and educate each other about the medication we take. Well put together and great looking. For subscriptions and information contact the editor, Katharine Bolton at KB4MA@aol.com or at MA's headquarters:
Katharine Bolton/MA Newsletter
617 Pine St. Apt #2
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-629-1510
- Methadone Today
- The official newsletter of Detroit Organizational Needs in Treatment (DONT), an affiliate of NAMA. Read back issues of the newsletter and get subscription information at the site, or contact the editor, Beth Francisco at yourtype@tir.com.
- Shot of Hope
- The newsletter of Baltimore Advocates for Methadone (BAM), a NAMA affiliate. For subscriptions contact the editor, Jessie Durnin at Jess2day@aol.com.
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- National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
NCADI
P.O. Box 2345
Rockville, MD 20847-2345
1-800-729-6686
http://www.health.org/
Place orders by phone, US mail, or online.
Most items are free. Here are some good titles to get started:
- State Methadone Treatment Guidelines, TIP #1
Item #: BKD98
- Pregnant, Substance-Using Women, TIP #2
Item #: BKD107
- Matching Treatment to Patient Needs in Opioid Substitution Therapy, TIP # 20
Item #: BKD168
- LAAM in the Treatment of Opiate Addiction, TIP #22
Item #: BKD170
- Treatment of Opiate Addiction With Methadone: A Counselor's Manual, TAP #7
Item #: BKD151
- Approval and Monitoring of Narcotic Treatment Programs; A Guide on the Roles of Federal and State Agencies, TAP #12
Item #: PHD666
There are many more books, pamphlets, and video tapes to choose from. Of special interest are the TIPS and TAPS books (Treatment Improvement Protocol Series, and Technical Assistance Publication Series), a few of which are listed above. Get NCADI's catalog and stock up. Its free!
Many of the TIP and TAP series can be found on-line through the CSAT Treatment Improvement Exchange
- Methadone in the Treatment of Narcotic Addiction, and Addict in the Family
- Two books by our own Dr. Andrew Byrne, a methadone prescriber in New South Wales, Australia, and a frequent contributer to the MIE Letters Page.
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Some of the federal regulations can also be viewed online at the NAMA web site.
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