St. Louis County wants to open new methadone facility
September 25, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
As the Lake Superior Treatment Center faces the revocation of its state license, St. Louis County wants to see if anyone else is interested in running a methadone clinic for drug addicts in the Duluth area.
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See, it would be cheaper to build a train to the cities than pay all that cab fare for “treatment” runs – The Opiate Express oops I mean NLX needs to be built ASAP – hahahahaha
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat…we get rid of one problem, and want to encourage the same problem.
I’d be happy to start a clinic, and bilk $45 million out of taxpayers without penalty. Maybe I could get the “success” rate up from 5% to 5.01%.
Wake up St. Louis County, force these druggies off their “legal” addiction, and quit taking tax money out of my pocket.
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I’ve read with much interest the articles in the DNT about methadone “treatment”. I think St. Louis county should be glad the current clinic is closing and should not think about opening another one. People who truly need help of this magnitude should have inpatient treatment that gets them off drugs totally. Methadone clinics are simply keeping people addicted, but doing so while insurance companies or public assistance are paying the bill to keep them high. I’ve had close relatives and a friend who suffered addiction and inpatient treatment is really the best thing. Getting addicts high on legal drugs and continuing to up their doses will never get them sober again. They need to be taken off drugs, not given free ones. And giving large doses to take home really must stop.
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Here’s an idea – the addicts quit using and get clean. Yes, they will withdraw and be miserable, but that is not the county’s problem, nor is it anyone else’s. If they are driven to a new area to fuel their addictions, that just makes our town a better place.
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$43 Million over 5 years? Isn’t that roughly the same amount the city of Duluth would have spent on city streets over the same period of time?
Yeah, I think we can find a better use for that much money, don’t you?
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Send them to Jim Carlson and let him mess up even more lives legally!
Seriously I agree that these people need to quit being dependent on the county for their high and clean up their acts these clinics are not leaning on the treatment side they’re more like legal drug dealers. Its a no brainer that closing them down and diverting the money to getting rid of the problems that cause people to end up in these places would be much better spent.
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It doesn’t seem like anyone understands we are the voters and taxpayers! That said, WE need to put an end to this garbage, contact your representatives and tell them we are not allowing them to finance this travesty with OUR tax dollars, makes me sick. I can’t believe what this world is coming to, I have a friend who got laid off after 10 years at the same place, makes 300 a week on unemployment and can’t get one cent of help, and can’t find a job to save his life. If it goes on much longer he’s going to lose everything he’s busted his arse to get. Meanwhile, all the meth heads and welfare losers are comfortably tucked into their free apartment with their free heat, free food, free cable tv on their tax return paid for 50″ flat screen, texting away on their I Phones in between naps. How do you get thousands of dollars in tax returns when you don’t work? Oh yeah, because you have 6 kids, silly me. I don’t know how much longer this can go on before something drastic happens in this country.
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Brian….well said, same thing I have been saying for years!
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Hey County Commissioners, hows this for a proposal: Help those who truly want to get clean in a short period of time and give the rest a one-way bus ticket to the next city with a “treatment” center.
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