The editorial ends: “We should welcome the clinic when it opens on Monday.” [and] dealing with it in a progressive, straightforward way is not only the best approach for those caught in the vortex of addiction, but is additionally the best way for the community to start to right itself from the problems (crime, illness, etc.) associated with drug abuse. One was in the Courier Post (New Jersey), headlined “Methadone clinic target of new suit.” It detailed latest efforts to bar the establishment

of a methadone clinic. On August 23rd, two news media references to methadone clinics presented. there’s a big drug problem in Pembroke … According to one resident in the area, “It is a complete aberration to bring in a methadone clinic.”

The other news media reference came in the structure of an editorial in the Daily Observor of Pembroke County (Ontario), with the headline, “Methadone clinic should be welcomed.” It noted that “…

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