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Moratorium expires: 7 new methadone clinics would bring W.Va. total to 15
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Sunday Gazette-Mail
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July 25, 2004
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Seven new methadone clinics are applying to set up shop in West
Virginia, now that the state's moratorium on methadone clinic
applications expired last week.
The state Health Care Authority imposed the six-month moratorium
to give itself a break from methadone hopefuls while regulators write
the first-ever state rules for the clinics. Those rules won't be
ready until early next year, said Sheila Kelly of the Department of
Health and Human Resources.
That would be the earliest that any new clinics could actually
open. Meanwhile, seven clinics are already selling methadone in West
Virginia, and an eighth has been approved. Together, they netted more
than $4 million in pure ...