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Central registries, Part 2: The role of a national registry
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33053
Subject(s) - nobody , state (computer science) , methadone , stigma (botany) , political science , medicine , psychiatry , computer science , computer security , algorithm
Central registries have existed in the opioid treatment program system for 50 years, to make sure that patients don't enroll in more than one program. They are run by the states, usually under contract. Nobody knows them better than John Phillips, co‐founder of Creative Socio‐Medics Corp. in the 1960s, now Netsmart Technologies, and founder of the first central registry system in New York state. Now co‐president of Stop Stigma Now, Phillips talked about the significance of changes to the methadone registration system at the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) conference last month.