Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: Methadone Symposium

This is an archive of evaluation-related articles on methadone treatment published in the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, volume 67 (5 and 6), 2000 and volume 68 (1), 2001. These issues are posted on the WMU Evaluation Center website with permission of the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, New York. These issues are being made available online for free downloading for professional use as a service to the field.

Volume 67, Numbers 5 and 6, October/November 2000

• An Overview of Heroin Trends in New York City: Past, Present, and Future
  Blanche Frank
• Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT): A Review of Historical and Clinical Issues
  Herman Joseph, Sharon Stancliff, and John Langrod
• The Cost-Effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance
  Paul G. Barnett and Sally S. Hui
• Neurobiology of Addictive Behaviors and Its Relationship to Methadone Maintenance
  Barry Stimmel and Mary Jeanne Kreek
• Cerebral Metabolism in Opiate-Dependent Subjects: Effects of Methadone
  Igor I. Galynker, Sniezyna Watras-Ganz, Christian Miner, Richard N. Rosenthal, Don C. Des Jarlais, Beverly L. Richman, and Edythe London
• Methadone Medical Maintenance (MMM): Treating Chronic Opioid Dependence in Private Medical Practice – A Summary Report (1983-1998)
  Edwin A. Salsitz, Herman Joseph, Blanche Frank, John Perez, Beverly L. Richman, Nadim Salomon, Marcia F. Kalin, and David M. Novick
• Methadone Medical Maintenance (MMM): Treating Chronic Opioid Dependence in Private Medical Practice – A Summary Report (1983-1998)
  Edwin A. Salsitz, Herman Joseph, Blanche Frank, John Perez, Beverly L. Richman, Nadim Salomon, Marcia F. Kalin, and David M. Novick
• Effects of LAAM and Methadone Utilization in an Opiate Agonist Treatment Program
  Juan F. Valdivia and Samina Khattak
• When “Enough” Is Not Enough: New Perspectives on Optimal Methadone Maintenance Dose
  Stewart B. Leavitt, Marc Shinderman, Sarz Maxwell, Chin B. Eap, and Phillip Paris
• Treatment of Pain in Methadone-Maintained Patients
  Michael M. Scimeca, Seddon R. Savage, Russell Portenoy, and Joyce Lowinson
• HIV and HCV Infection among Injecting Drug Users
  Holly Hagan and Don C. Des Jarlais
• Interactions between Methadone and Medications Used to Treat HIV Infection: A Review
  Marc N. Gourevitch and Gerald H. Friedland
• The Impact of Hepatitis C Virus Infection on Methadone Maintenance Treatment
  David M. Novick
• Causes and Rates of Death among Methadone Maintenance Patients Before and After the Onset of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
  Phillip W. Appel, Herman Joseph, and Beverly L. Richman
• The Converging Epidemics of Mood-Altering-Drug Use, HIV, HVC, and Partner Violence: A Conundrum for Methadone Maintenance Treatment
  Louisa Gilbert, Nabila El-Bassel, Valli Rajah, Anthony Foleno, Jorge Fontdevila, Victoria Frye, and Beverly L. Richman

Volume 68, Number 1, January 2001

• Clinical Trials in Developing Countries: A Review of the Moral Issues
  Douglas P. Lackey
• The Key Extended Entry Program (KEEP): A Methadone Treatment Program for Opiate-Dependent Inmates
  James Nolan, and Harry I. Shuman
• The Key Extended Entry Program (KEEP): From the Community Side of the Bridge
  Bryan M. Fallon
• Integrating the Methadone Patient in the Traditional Addiction Inpatient Rehabilitation Program- Problems and Solutions
  Steven S. Kipnis, Anne Herron, John Perez, and Herman Joseph
• An Alternative Program for Methadone Maintenance Dropouts: Description and Preliminary Data
  Marjorie F. Goldstein, Sherry Deren, Mark Beardsley, and Beverly L. Richman
• A Mandatory Short-Term Methadone-to-Abstinence Program in New York City
  Charles Winick
• Analysis of Behavioral Patterns in Five Cohorts of Patients Retained in Methadone Maintenance Programs
  Alan Kott, Eric Habel, and William Nottingham
• Selected In-Treatment Outcomes of Long-Term Methadone Maintenance Treatment Patients in New York State
  Philip W. Appel, Herman Joseph, Alan Kott, William Nottingham, Edward Tasiny, and Eric Habel
• Leaving Methadone Treatment: Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten, Lessons Ignored
  Stephen Magura and Andrew Rosenblum
• Methadone Advocacy: The Voice of the Patient
  Jocelyn Woods