Pubdate: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 Source: FFWD (CN AB) Copyright: 2009 FFWD Contact: http://www.ffwdweekly.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1194 Author: Lindsey Wallis SECOND CHANCE FOR METHADONE CLINIC Clinic Finds New Location After Being Shunned In Other Spots Despite fears that Second Chance Recovery, one of Calgary's two methadone clinics, would be forced to close, it has found a new location - in a vacated Medicentre in Braeside. The clinic's current location on 41 Avenue NE is not zoned for a medical facility, forcing them to move. Dr. Ian Postnikoff, an addiction psychiatrist at the clinic, expects a not-in-my-backyard backlash from the Braeside community. The clinic has been searching for a new location for months but was being shunned by various communities because residents don't want it in their area. "People's attitudes tend to be quite negative towards treatment of patients with addiction," Postnikoff says. "There is this belief these people are raving mad and out of control, but these are people wanting help, they don't want to be involved in the illegal drug life." Sherry Morrison, the owner of Shuckaluck's Public Ale House in Braecentre, the mall of the new location, doesn't think there will be an issue with the clinic movies in July 6. "They have to go somewhere," she says. "If they run them out of every neighbourhood, where are they going to go?" adding that with a police station down the street, it is as good a location as any. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr