To The Expositor:

I would like to write about my experiences regarding the methadone maintenance program. I would like to have everyone's attention and respect and hope that the majority of people understand what I am trying to achieve.

I am speaking on behalf of the situation with the methadone maintenance program. The methadone clinic has to quit their services in Little Current and has been refused to relocate elsewhere on the Island and methadone patients are devastated and left with few options and one of them is to travel to Sudbury twice a week to see the doctor and do urine screens and get their methadone drink. The other option is to discontinue the program and taper off methadone in 30 days, which doesn't seem possible. The last option is to enter a different methadone treatment clinic. People are going through hardships and they can't handle this. It will be cheaper to go back on drugs than travel to Sudbury. That is what the outcome is going to be, if something is not done to help all the people on methadone. People who have the power to help should welcome the methadone treatment clinic and provide it somewhere on the Island.

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