Pubdate: Wed, 16 Jun 2004
Source: Shelby County Reporter ( AL)
Copyright: 2004 Shelby County Reporter
Contact:  http://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2949
Author: Alan Edmondsom
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n811/a05.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?136 (Methadone)

SAGINAW RESIDENTS WILL FIGHT CLINIC

Dear Editor:

In response to the editorial in last week's SCR, I guess I am one of the 
pot-clanging witches better known as concerned citizens of the Saginaw 
community.

I fail to find how the sermon the mount and a synthetic heroin developed by 
Adolf Hitler's Nazi chemist in the 1940s have anything in common.

Jesus, as I was taught, was far from an addict. As far as wanting another 
bite from the regulatory apple, we, as Saginaw citizens and county leaders, 
weren't given the first bite from the apple.

It seems sad to me that Mrs. Sidwell's clinic had to go as far away as 
Washington D.C. and Wisconsin to find someone to come out in support of 
this methadone clinic in Saginaw, Ala.

I am an organizer of the opposition to Shelby Treatment Center. I don't 
apologize for my actions on behalf of our community. I just hope the good 
citizens of the entire county will come together with our county officials 
and community members to ensure this clinic doesn't enter our great Shelby 
County.

Alan Edmondsom

Saginaw
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