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Newshawk: Humphrey Ploughjogger (http://www.masscann.org/)
Pubdate: Wed, 25 Jan 2006
Source: Lowell Sun (MA)
Contact:
Website: http://www.lowellsun.com/
Address: 15 Kearney Square, P.O. Box 1477 Lowell, Massachusetts 01853
Copyright: 2006 MediaNews Group, Inc
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?136 (Methadone)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/rehab.htm (Treatment)
WRONG SITE FOR CLINIC
Locating a methadone clinic in downtown Lowell, a few steps from the
high school, is an unconscionably bad idea that must be strongly
opposed by city leaders and our state delegation.
Relief Associates LLC of Watertown this week proposed a facility for
John Street, a site that is about 150 feet from Lowell High School's
Freshmen Academy and two blocks from the school's main buildings.
It is the wrong location for several reasons -- methadone clinics
attract drug dealers looking for easy targets but who are willing to
sell to anyone, including naive students; it will stymie downtown
Lowell's ongoing revitalization; and the city already has a methadone
clinic -- Habit Management Institute -- on Suffolk Street.
[Remainder snipped]
MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman
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