The Narcotic Drug Treatment Center Inc. (NDTC) is a non-profit Organization
designed to assist individuals to overcome both physical and psychological
dependency on drugs. Since 1974 the NDTC has endorsed a treatment philosophy
emphasizing client readiness to seek help as a key factor to effective
therapy. Strict Client confidentiality assures each client security to
explore options and to challenge present behaviors and attitudes. The agency's
ultimate goal is the complete physical, psychological, social, and economic
habilitation of each client.
The Center for Drug Problems (CDP) provides a broad spectrum of outpatient
services to meet the drug treatment needs of people with opiate abuse problems.
Methadone Treatment is provided in three components: 30 day detoxification
(detox), extended detox, and methadone maintenance. Drug- free counseling
is available for people with non-opiate drug abuse problems, while drug-free
and maintenance aftercare are available for clients who have moved beyond
treatment components, and are seeking additional counseling. For more information
regarding CDP treatment services please call (907) 276-6430 or
E-mail CDP.
History: Methadone, a long-acting synthetic narcotic analgesic,
was first used in the maintenance treatment of drug addiction in the mid-1960's
by Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander of Rockfeller University. There
are now 115,000 methadone maintenance patients in the U.S. 40,000 of them
are in New York State and about half that many are in California. Methadone
is widely employed throughout the world, and is the most effective known
treatment for heroin addiction.
The goal of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is to reduce illegal
heroin use and the crime, death, disease, and other negative consequences
associated with addiction. Methadone can be used to detoxify heroin addicts,
but most heroin addicts who detox using methadone or any other method return
to heroin use. Therefore, the goal of methadone maintenance treatment is
to reduce and even eliminate heroin use among addicts by stabilizing them
on methadone for as long as is necessary to help them keep their lives
together and avoid returning to previous patterns of drug use. The benefits
of methadone maintenance treatment have been established by hundres of
scientific studies, and there are almost no negative health consequences
of long-term methadone treatment even when it continues for twenty or thiry
years. Methadone is the most rigorously studied and has yielded the best
results. For more information on methadone
see NAMA.
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THE S.T.O.P. AIDS PROJECT
Offers outreach focusing on injectable drug users (IDUs) and their sexual
partners. Our purpose is to educate this population about HIV:
What AIDS is
How the virus is transmitted
How this transmission may be prevented.
Volunteer outreach workers distribute risk reduction materials such as
condoms and literature. Our project is available for educational presentations,
preventive materials, referral services, counseling, and is a free &
anonymous HIV test site. For more information please call (907) 278-5019
or E-mail STOP AIDS.
A United Way Agency
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Last Modified: 14 July 2003
