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Article: SOME SAY BOSTON'S METHADONE VAN JUST FOSTERS A DIFFERENT BAD HABIT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 19, 1989
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Tom D'Ambrosio says he was a drug addict for more than half
his 45 years, so he believes he knows something about the nature of
addiction.
A drug addict does not care what he uses to get high, the
North End resident says, as long as he can get more of it. "If I'm
a junkie, my choice of drugs is more," he said.
That, D'Ambrosio said, is why he cannot understand the logic
behind Boston's controversial methadone program, which recently put
into operation a van as a mobile treatment center in selected city
neighborhoods. The wrong way to help addicts, he said, is to give
them more drugs.
"If you want to get off drugs, you don't want the methadone
van up the street," he said recently ...