Opinion. Comments on the effectiveness of narcotic addiction treatment in physicians' private offices. Government regulation of narcotic medications used in narcotic addiction treatment; Enactment of the Narcotic Addict Treatment Act (NATA) in 1974 to give the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ...
In response to the increasing concern over addiction to methadone, Congress enacted the Narcotic Addict Treatment Act of 1974, once again seeking to limit the public's access to opioid medications--this time, Methadone--by placing strict limits on practitioners' ability to prescribe Methadone to tr...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook narcotic addict One who has become physiologically or psychologically dependent upon narcotics. See:drug addiction Medical Dictionary, © 2009 Farlex and Partners Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visitthe ...
“Waiver Authority for Physicians Who Dispense or Prescribe CertainNarcotic Drugsfor Maintenance Treatment orDetoxificationTreatment” of opioid-dependent individuals. This part of the law is known as theDrug Addiction Treatment Act (2000)(Boatwright, 2002). Under this law physicians can treat opioid-...