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Project Lazarus Brings Opioid Treatment Program to Wilkes County Along With Naloxone Kits

June 2, 2014 by ATForum

Project Lazarus, a nonprofit organization based in Moravian Falls, North Carolina, is best known nationally for its work on making the overdose-reversal medication naloxone more available. But the organization, under the guidance of CEO Fred Wells Brason II, was also instrumental in bringing the first opioid treatment program (OTP) to Wilkes County North Carolina. It started as … [Read more...] about Project Lazarus Brings Opioid Treatment Program to Wilkes County Along With Naloxone Kits

The M.A.R.S. Peers Model at Work in Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction

June 2, 2014 by ATForum

The M.A.R.S. Project is the only federally funded program that provides peer recovery support to patients in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid addiction. Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, M.A.R.S. is conducted in collaboration with the substance abuse division of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, … [Read more...] about The M.A.R.S. Peers Model at Work in Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction

Study Suggests Chronic Pain is Widespread and Undertreated in MMT Programs By Guest Author Stewart B. Leavitt

June 2, 2014 by ATForum

Pain is a worldwide epidemic and more than a third of all adults, or 100 million persons, in the U. S. alone suffer from chronic pain conditions of some sort, as estimated by the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM 2011). Even more troubling, newly published research suggests that the prevalence of clinically significant, persistent pain among patients in methadone maintenance … [Read more...] about Study Suggests Chronic Pain is Widespread and Undertreated in MMT Programs By Guest Author Stewart B. Leavitt

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