The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 4
Lost Women of Science
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The Opposition to Methadone Clinics
In neighborhoods with methadone clinics, people started seeing long lines of patients waiting to get their daily dose. Locals would tell newspapers they were worried about drug users coming into their neighborhoods. So you've got a local opposition. And federal regulators were worried about these clinics, too. Not every methadone program was a clean program. There was a diversion of methadone into the black market.
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