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Williams Plans to Increase Drug Treatment Access!
Posted by FoM on April 01, 1999 at 07:04:16 PT
Source: Washington Post
On a gray Palm Sunday, not long after dawn, the morning ritual inside the government building on First Street in Northeast Washington resembles a form of communion. Men and women in work clothes, church clothes and just regular clothes step up to a bulletproof window. They call out a five-digit number and flash a photo ID. A nurse spins a turntable and serves up a paper cup of deliverance. 
This is the D.C. methadone clinic where Melvin Martin goes every day for the synthetic narcotic that helps keep his 25-year heroin habit at bay. Without it, says Martin, 50, "I'd probably be running wild." Treatment is the only way to help!Prison can't help an addict.Please click on the link above for the complete article!
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