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Article: Ruling could expand options for methadone clinics in Pa.
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- July 12, 2007
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Communities will have a harder time rejecting methadone clinics in
light of a federal appeals court ruling involving a proposed clinic
in Reading.
A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
June 15 that a state law restricting the placement of methadone
clinics violates the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the
Rehabilitation Act. The state law banned methadone clinics within 500
feet of churches, schools, playgrounds, parks, homes and child-care
facilities.
The decision doesn't mean clinics can be built anywhere, but it
significantly increases the options, said Mike Dokmanovich, chief
executive officer of Freedom Healthcare Services of Bethel Park.
"I don't ...