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- Medication-Assisted Treatment: Special Anti-Discrimination Issues (PowerPoint Presentation)
- Helpful Resources to Address Discrimination Against People in Medication-Assisted Treatment - List of useful resources for educating employers, courts and others about Medication Assisted Treatment, including why methadone and buprenorphine do not impair physical or mental functioning when provided to individuals stabilized on the appropriate dose.
- Medication-Assisted Treatment: Special Anti-Discrimination Issues - Recording of Webinar session on 8/11/09 (Flash Video)
- Medication-Assisted Treatment: Special Anti-Discrimination Issues - Q & A session (PDF)
- Know Your Rights: Are You in Recovery from Alcohol or Drug Problems? Rights for Individuals on Medication-Assisted Treatment (2009) (PDF) - This brochure is a companion piece to Know Your Rights: Are You in Recovery from Alcohol or Drug Problems? and describes the specific legal issues faced by people in Medication-Assisted Treatment for opiate addiction. (Funded by Partners for Recovery, an initiative of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).
- Educating Courts, Other Government Agencies and Employers About Methadone (2009) - This publication explains how individuals in methadone maintenance programs and other forms of Medication Assisted Treatment, as well as their treatment programs and advocates, can advocate for their rights so that they can get in or stay in the treatment they need – without discrimination. The focus is on discrimination by the child welfare system and criminal justice system – including driving under the influence, jails and prisons, and probation and parole.
- Legality of Denying Access to Medication Assisted Treatment in the Criminal Justice System (2011) - A report that explains why criminal justice agencies violate Federal anti-discrimination laws and the United States Constitution when they deny access to medications, such as methadone and burprenorphine, to treat opiate addiction. The report was written at the request of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD), who, along with the Center, has a longstanding interest in expanding the use of these medications in criminal justice settings.
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