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Article: METHADONE VAN IN BROCKTON PART OF NEW STATE TACK ON DRUGS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 13, 1988
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BROCKTON - Lenny, who looks more like a police officer
than a drug addict and ex-con, showed up on a frigid dawn yesterday
to get his daily dose of methadone, a substitute for the $400 worth
of heroin he used to shoot into his veins every day. But Lenny
wasn't complaining about the hour or the cold.
"This is a Christmas present for me," the 50-year-old Brockton
man said, gesturing at the new $50,000 Winnebago van that serves as
the nation's first mobile methadone clinic. "I used to have to get
up at 4:30 and drive into Kenmore Square to be dosed at 6:30 and be
at work on the South Shore by 8."
Parked conspicuously beneath the windows of the Brockton
Police Department, the long ...