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Article: Ellsworth restricts methadone clinics
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- December 18, 2007
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ELLSWORTH - City councilors on Monday approved an amendment to
the land use ordinance that places restrictions on methadone
clinics, which could stonewall any provider from coming to
Ellsworth, according to one local doctor.
By a vote of 6-1, Ellsworth councilors supported the amendment,
which stipulates that a clinic must operate as part of a hospital
campus and must be restricted to a maximum of 30 patients.
The amendment also allows only one methadone clinic per hospital
(Ellsworth has only one) and requires that any clinic, no matter the
size, be approved by the local planning board.
"This is a highly restrictive ordinance," said Charles Alexander,
a doctor at Maine Coast Memorial ...