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As part of the preparations for the International AIDS Conference, we would like to inform you about access to opioid substitution treatment (OST) in Mexico.
The Conference organizers, including the Mexican government, have taken steps to provide conference participants who use drugs, with access to OST in Mexico. However, because of Mexican law and local limitations only methadone will be provided.
Methadone will be available for conference participants, free of cost, on 30 July – 11 August, at the clinic Centro de Atención Integral de las Adicciones, located at Euclides N° 19 Colonia Anzures. Please see map here.
The opening hours are Monday to Friday: 8:00 – 16:30; Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 – 13:00 and the telephone numbers are: 55 31 93 00 and 52 50 80 47.
It will be available free of charge, Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 14.30 and Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 to 13.00. Outside those hours patients will be required to find alternative means of transportation.
A mini-van will leave from the main entrance of Hotel Fiesta Americana Reforma from 30 July until 02 August and from 09 to 11 August. A mini-van will leave from Centro Banamex (click here for a map with the pick-up point), from 03 to 08 August.
At the clinic, you will be asked to present an ID card with personal contact details; the prescribing physician’s contact details and a valid prescription with details.
Methadone, available in pill form, has to be consumed at the clinic, under medical supervision. No take-away doses will be provided.
Note that according to Mexican law conference participants will NOT be allowed to bring in their own methadone or buprenorphine to Mexico, because these are designated ‘illegal narcotics’. Conference organizers have been informed that National laws will apply to participants who are found to be carrying such drugs at arrival.
If you require methadone during your stay in Mexico related to the Conference, please fill out the application form (available in English and Spanish) and send it back to methadone@aids2008.org and Stijn@inpud.org as soon as possible.
Methadone services are being organized by the National Council Against addiction (CONADIC) in collaboration with AIDS 2008.
For more information about accessing methadone in Mexico please contact Katja Suarez/ Marco Negrete at methadone@aids2008.org or Stijn Goosens at Stijn@inpud.org or visit www.indro-online.de/mexico.htm.
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