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Article: Methadone Maze
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 15, 1995
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The closing of Washington's largest methadone clinic in December
has been seen by many as yet another symptom of the city's fiscal
crisis. But behind the financial story lie hundreds of human stories
about addicts whose lives will fall apart if they cannot find
alternate sources of methadone.
Methadone treatment helps heroin addicts free themselves from drug
dependency, a life of crime in support of their habit and the risk of
adding to the AIDS population by sharing dirty needles. Many who are
a burden and often a threat to society have become productive
citizens as a result of methadone treatment. It is more likely to
work than any other therapy.
Yet of the estimated half-million to 1 ...