1.   Currently, he said, federal and state officials mistakenly spend most of their dollars on methadone maintenance, making it difficult for drug users to try anything else.

2.   Curtis found that one-third of those who joined methadone maintenance programs in Harlem stayed and turned their lives around.

3.   Detoxification lasts from one to three weeks, and continuing treatment such as methadone maintenance can go on much longer.

4.   Or they are people who want to come off methadone maintenance.

5.   These might include counseling, methadone maintenance, group therapy or outpatient detoxification.

6.   They introduced methadone maintenance as a longer-term solution.