Addiction Treatment Watchdog is a resource for educating methadone maintenance patients and others about addiction and the treatment of opiate addiction. By exposing abuses in the clinic system, we hope to empower methadone maintenance patients and challenge providers to offer quality, individualized treatment for the disease of opiate addiction.

By exposing the abuse and discrimination that many methadone maintenance patients are forced to endure in order to obtain their lifesaving medication, we hope to educate others and make changes in our current treatment system.

Because of the volume of email received at Watchdog, we have to ask our readers to please use the Clinic Report Form to submit clinic reports, or for any comments about your clinic that you would like to be posted on the Watchdog site. We are behind in updating the Clinic Reports section, so please be patient with us. If any of our readers know basic HTML and would like to volunteer their assistance, please email Watchdog. Thanks.

Features is a new section of Watchdog. You will be able to find a copy of the new Methadone Federal Regulations here, as well as information about Pregnancy and MMT, Hepatitis C and MMT and other information that all methadone maintenance patients and others interested in treatment for opiate addiction will find useful. If there is a topic you would like to see Watchdog cover, please let us know.

Family and Friends. Is someone you love a methadone maintenance patient? Or, would you like to find out more about this life-saving treatment? Do you have questions about all this? Please send your questions to Methadone Watchdog and maybe we can help you understand what's going on with the MMT patient in your life. There are many myths and falsehoods out there; don't let them destroy your relationship!

Read new stories which were added to the Watchdog Stories page. Clinic Reports have been changed so that clinic policies and weekly fees can be compared to other treatment facilities. Comments about individual clinics will have to be kept to a minimum in this section of the site, but, patients can submit stories about their clinics to be posted on the Watchdog Stories page. Please submit a Clinic Report or your Clinic Story to Watchdog.

Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity is mailing form letters and organization literature to U.S. Opiate Treatment Programs. C.R.A.C.K. is targeting methadone maintenance patients in an attempt to rob them of reproductive freedom.

By offering patients $200 to entice them to undergo sterilization or use selected birth control methods, C.R.A.C.K. is sending the message that methadone is 'just another drug' and patients are using it as a substitute for illicit opiates. By supporting C.R.A.C.K., programs are sending the same message to their patients. Please read more about this outrage. Please support and respect your patients and your program by refusing to participate. Make sure to read Amy's response to the founder of C.R.A.C.K..

If you have a story to tell about yourself or someone else's experiences withdrawing from methadone while incarcerated, we want to hear it. Denying methadone maintenance patients their medication while incarcerated is a violation of patient rights and something advocates want to change. Beth, the Director of RI-ARM, is working very hard to make changes in her state and others. Watchdog will forward these stories to her so she can use them in her battle to change institution policies. The stories you send us will help all patients that have the misfortune of being incarcerated and denied medication. Stories should be sent Watchdog.

Please let us know if we can post your story on the Watchdog website. If so, let us know if you prefer to remain anonymous or what name you would like us to use. Thanks for all your help.

Watchdog needs help paying for our web host, PO Box, postage, copying, phone calls and other expenses. Every little bit counts and helps us continue our important work. Checks or money orders should be made payable to Addiction Treatment Watchdog. Please send donations to:

A.T. Watchdog
PO Box 555
Platte City, MO 64079

The Addiction Treatment Watchdog message board is very active. MMT-related news is posted frequently on the board. If you aren't already a regular visitor, please take the time to visit.

The friends and families of MMT patients have requested a place they can call their own. Watchdog receives dozens of email messages from family and friends of MMT patients trying to find information about the disease of opiate addiction. Watchdog is proud to announce the Friends of Watchdog Message Board. Please distribute the link to friends, family members and others that might benefit from this message board. Thanks.

The new Federal Methadone Regulations went into effect May 18, 2001. Read the new Fed Regs on Watchdog.

What do the new Methadone Federal Regulations mean to you? Read Fed Reg FAQS to find out what the major changes are in the new regulations.

 Open Letter to Clinic Staff was sent to Watchdog by some very grateful parents. Clinic staff, this message is for you.

Read a new article by Amy Cortney, Our Common Bond. If we don't help each other, who will help us?

Watchdog is looking North! We would like to welcome our Canadian counterparts to write in and let us know what is happening with regards to Methadone Maintenance Treatment. Welcome Watchdog's new Editor, Gary. Canadian Corner needs your input. You can send comments and suggestions to Gary at canada@atwatchdog.org