Pubdate: Thu, 03 Mar 2005
Source: Columbian, The (WA)
Copyright: 2005 The Columbian Publishing Co.
Contact:  http://www.columbian.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/92
Author: Rosie Brensek
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?136 (Methadone)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm (Methamphetamine)

CLINIC IS PREVENTION

I have an ideal location for the methadone clinic proposed for the Salmon 
Creek area. Why not put it in that run-down trailer park on Highway 99? 
Seriously, though, it's time we admitted that Clark County has a much more 
dangerous problem than ex-heroin addicts who are trying to sober up. It's 
called methamphetamine.

I'm a public health nurse who lives in the Salmon Creek area, and I wonder 
if the worried neighbors who object to the clinic ever bothered to visit 
some of the neighborhoods between Highway 99 and Interstate 5? I can think 
of one particular street in the area that's been referred to as "Meth 
Alley." The ex-heroin addicts I've met are only harmful to themselves, but 
the methamphetamine addicts are paranoid and dangerous to everyone. I 
suspect that there are children currently attending Sarah J. Anderson, 
Sacajawea and Salmon Creek elementary schools who cope with a parent's 
methamphetamine addiction problems on a daily basis.

Let ex-heroin addicts get their methadone in a safe place. Concentrate our 
energies and outrage on the methamphetamine scourge instead. It's 
everywhere in Clark County, folks.

Rosie Brinsek

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