Methadone Information Exchange

The Methadone Information Exchange focuses on empowering methadone patients and addicts seeking treatment. The site provides access to information on important issues, and tries to debunk the mythology that surrounds opiate addiction and its treatment.

Introduction

New Forum: the MIE Message Board!

We've added a new feature to the Methadone Information Exchange. The MIE Message Board is a CGI scripted forum that allows you to post new messages and replies automatically, then read them on-line seconds after you've written them. Messages can be searched, sorted by thread, date, or author, and each user can set preferences to tailor the look and feel of the board to their own taste.

The MIE Message Board is not a replacement for the Letters Page, but an alternate forum to meet the needs of those who want faster action, or need a speedy reply. Use the Message Board for questions and answers, brief notes and comments. Use the Letters Page for letters to the editor, opinions on current issues, statements to the world-at-large about methadone maintenance treatment.

Go to the Message Board - Communicate with methadone maintenance patients and professionals from around the world. Ask questions, get answers.

Go to the Letters Page - Opinions, guest editorials, points of view. Break the stereotypes, tell the world the truth about methadone maintenance treatment.

NIH Consensus Panel Recommends Expanding Access to and Improving MTPs

NIH News Release, 11/19/97 - A consensus panel convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today strongly recommended broader access to methadone maintenance treatment programs for people who are addicted to heroin or other opiate drugs and that the Federal and State regulations and other barriers impeding this access be eliminated.

NIH Consensus Statement: Effective Medical Treatment of Opiate Addiction

Write to your representatives in Washington and to your state regulatory agency and ask them to adopt the recommendations in this report. Use CapWeb to get names and addresses of your senators and representatives. Visit the MMT Directory for info on contacting your state methadone authority.

Two URLs for MIE

If you use http://www.mindspring.com/~methinfex to access MIE, consider trying http://methinfex.home.mindspring.com. Both URLs bring you to this page, but you may find the second one is easier to use and remember. Either way, it's up to you.

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Last modified on: Apr. 01, 1999