Methadone Today is the official newsletter of Detroit Organizational Needs in Treatment (DONT). DONT is a methadone advocacy group organized by methadone patients to return dignity to methadone maintenance treatment and to protect the rights of patients. The idea of a methadone advocacy organization was conceptualized in March of 1995 when the DEA raided a Detroit methadone clinic. The groups agreed that there was a great need for patient unity to correct the damage that had been done and to thwart further involvement of the DEA in methadone treatment. DONT works to correct the misconceptions about methadone maintenance treatment and overcome the prejudice directed against methadone patients, strives to educate communities and policy makers about the benefits of methadone treatment, responds to the negative and sensationalized media, advocates for treatment on demand, and provides a platform whereby methadone patients can express their concerns about their quality of life.

Detroit Organizational Needs in Treatment is dedicated to:

improving the quality and accessibility of pharmacological treatments for opiate addiction, specifically opioid replacement therapy (including but not limited to methadone maintenance treatment)

eliminating discrimination against patients of these treatments

creating a more harmonious relationship between patients, treatment providers, and the community

empowering methadone patients with a strong, unified voice

educating patients, medical personnel, policy makers, and the general public about the numerous life-saving benefits of opioid replacement therapy
 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with my e-mail because I get so many questions. Please read this FAQ before you send an email.

Advocacy Group--Advocates for Recovery through Medicine (ARM) - We need volunteers to help this national movement change methadone policy to become more consumer friendly. See details.

ARM Georgia - This is a wonderful new web site that has just about everything regarding methadone.  It is probably the only place you can find step-by-step instructions to help get someone dosed in jail.

Methadone Watchdog visit this web site if you are having trouble with your clinic. Use the message board, the complaint page, or just read the editorials.

An Analysis of the Attempt to Strangle Methadone Maintenance in America: Mayor Guiliani to "The Addiction Free Treatment Act of 1999." - by William W. Read, J.D.

Methadone Maintenance Clinics Across the U.S. Traveling? Your clinic not treating you right? 

Methadone Maintenance Authorities by State  - This is who to ask for the State Methadone Regulations.

Federal Methadone Regulations - When your clinic tells you, "It's Federal Regulations", you can see for yourself if it is or not.

Michigan Methadone Regulations - See how far the Michigan regulations depart from the new federal regulations.

Methadone Maintenance Clinics Worldwide Traveling outside the country? - If so, you need to go to this site. Gives information by country and what to do when traveling with methadone.

Drs. Dole and Nyswander (Photos) - Also, see Herman Joseph, Ph.D.'s Chapter 5, Medical Methadone Maintenance: The Further Concealment of a Stigmatized Condition

Treatment Improvement Exchange (TIE) - - Look for the TIP (Treatment Improvement Protocol) and the TAP (Technical Assistance Publication) Series here. A lot of great information on methadone by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Americans With Disabilities Act - Have you been discriminated against for employment because you are a methadone patient? - If so, this will tell you how to file a complaint with the Department of Justice. Yes, you are covered if you are legally taking methadone and are not abusing other drugs.

Drugs That May Increase or Decrease Methadone's Effects

Starting a Methadone Anonymous Group

Check out the new "War on Drugs Clock" - It is a counter, updated as you watch, of the number of dollars spent, the number of drug arrests this year up to the minute, and the number of new prisoners based on government stats.

More about the DEA raid - Methadone Clinic in Detroit Raided

Identifying the Enemy: Who is the Enemy? - The enemy is not the addict but the forfeiture of civil liberties because of the "drug war"

Constitution: Fact or Fiction by Dr. Gene Schroder - The Story of our Nation's Descent from a Constitutional Republic through a Constitutional Dictatorship to an Unconstitutional Dictatorship.

Jury Rights Under Assault - Juror Laura Kriho's Conviction on Newly Created Crime

Juror Kriho's Sentencing

LINKS to RELATED SITES 

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Web site maintained by Beth Francisco, Senior Editor & Publisher MethadoneToday: Last updated January, 2007.



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