AN UPDATE FROM THE SMA IN LA

Subject: Unofficial Announcement
Date: September 1, 2005

Contact: Rokki Baker
NAMA, Chapter Coordiator

From We Speak Methadone
Website: http://www.readybb.com/nama_wespeakmethadone/index.php

I just got off the phone with the SMA in LA about the concern for methadone patients in New Orleans. 1st of all they have been working really hard to make sure patients are being taken care of. The pharmacutical companies have donated methadone for the over 200 patients they have right now...they will be setting up a spot at the Baton Rouge Hospital for dosing and Kaye told me that her Agency will be realeasing a press release sometime today. I asked Kay what I could do to help to get word out and she said it to just pass along the info and about the press release. I think they have done a fine job.

So...Thanks to the Pharmacutical companies for donating the methadone for our patients in New Orleans and lets hope and pray that now that they have the patients, since the evac, that they will be taken care of.

Also, Thanks to the SMA and Kaye, for taking time out of her very busy day to call me back and talk to me and explain what was going on there. She told me "Rest assured that everything is being done to make all the patients are being properly medicated"......she said "Patients" too and not Clients...I was so tickled

Maybe when the press release comes out we can post it here at WSM,Hoss? Just to give a small helping hand to to get that info out???

Lets keep sending our prayers to everyone struck down in this awful loss....

Be Safe Everyone