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• Anonymous

  This is a bunch of bull sh—— These methadone clinics should not eve be allowed in the state of Maine and they all should be shut down!!  When are people going to wake up and realize this drug is poison and is only supporting one habit for another!!

• Anonymous

  And what are you basing your argument on, Jakey? FACT is, which have been proven in study after study, that methadone treatment used correctly is a very effective treatment to help opiate addicts get out of the rat race of addiction and start living normal lives. How is that poison?

• Anonymous

  I’m glad to see that CRC has finally filed a lawsuit against the flagrant NIMBYism that’s going on in Warren. It’s hateful, ignorant discrimination, nothing less. Hopefully Warren and its people will learn a few things and once the clinic opens will realize that none of their fears came true, just like it has in every other town that has fought the opening of a methadone clinic.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Regina-Hosebeast/100002095287763 Regina Hosebeast

  Actually Zitake, you are mistaken. In Bangor we have Methadone clinics and have seen an influx of addicts, most seeking treatment but many keep the scam going and sell their Methadone for cash to buy the real deal. I live close to a drug store and am sick of picking up bags, prescription info including names and drug info from my yard. Most prescriptions are for Hydrocodone.

  If the methadone clinics are working so well, why do I witness countless drones walking by my house 24/7 ripping into their drugs. Prescription drug abuse is totally out of control in Bangor and the Methadone Clinics just draw more in.

• Anonymous

  (Most*) Drugs are bad. They’re habit forming, they can be a distraction from responsibilities, and some of them create physical dependency and will end up killing you. A lot of them are prescribed by doctors today. These drugs are terrible. Despite this, people keep using them. They use them because they work very well. We can’t change this – people are going to continue to use and abuse drugs. 

  Drug prohibition is a failure. It’s created criminals out of a large portion of our population who were simply trying to escape their current predicament (however poor a choice). It’s induced countless others into the violent and lucrative  world of gang life and drug trafficking. An entire country south of the border is practically run by drug cartels because of the billions of dollars they make peddling their drugs to the US and Canada. 

  Has anyone stopped to think if drugs weren’t worth so much money, most of this nonsense would stop? The only thing drug prohibition has really accomplished is to increase the cost to the consumer and increased the profit margin for the supplier. 

  Here’s the real kicker: Due to prohibition, buying illegal, potentially lethal drugs, is as simple as stopping by a street corner. 

  I say let’s make it a little harder to get drugs. Let’s make them available in our pharmacies — we can ensure people get real, accurate information on the dangers, and how to use the drug as safely as possible. Lets give them the means to abort an overdose or end a bad trip. Give them the means to stop spreading aids.  And most important of all, let’s give them the support they need to kick their addiction for good. No more profiteering on drugs – all profits should go to support and rehab projects.  NO ONE wants to be a junkie – but it’s a hell of a hole to dig yourself out of when the world turns its back on you except drug dealers.

  This is something that we need to do on a country-wide scale. No one will be willing to take the first step if they’re afraid of becoming a “junkie haven”. But it’s a step we need to take in order to minify the pain and misery surrounding drugs. 

  *Never giving up caffeine.

• Anonymous

  … so what’s a sensible approach to take with drug abuse? We’ve been doing the same thing for the past 90 years, and it ain’t working…

  (And why do we realize that alcohol prohibition was a failure, but refuse to accept the exact same problems alcohol prohibition caused are being caused by drug prohibition today?)

• Anonymous

  The way I see it,  the CRC lied about what they were going to use the building for. If they were planning on using it for a methadone clinic, then they should have stated that…..not using it as “office space”! And since when is a drug addict considered a person with a disability? Being a druggie is not a disability. It is a self inflicted condition brought on by drug abuse at the hands of the individual. I know people who have TRUE DISABILITIES and they have to fight for years to even receive a disability pension. I wish this country would stop catering to the drug addict and take care of the people who truly need it. Methadone clinics are popping up as fast as new Walmarts!

• Anonymous

  The way I see it,  the CRC lied about what they were going to use the building for. If they were planning on using it for a methadone clinic, then they should have stated that…..not using it as “office space”! And since when is a drug addict considered a person with a disability? Being a druggie is not a disability. It is a self inflicted condition brought on by drug abuse at the hands of the individual. I know people who have TRUE DISABILITIES and they have to fight for years to even receive a disability pension. I wish this country would stop catering to the drug addict and take care of the people who truly need it. Methadone clinics are popping up as fast as new Walmarts!

• Anonymous

  The way I see it,  the CRC lied about what they were going to use the building for. If they were planning on using it for a methadone clinic, then they should have stated that…..not using it as “office space”! And since when is a drug addict considered a person with a disability? Being a druggie is not a disability. It is a self inflicted condition brought on by drug abuse at the hands of the individual. I know people who have TRUE DISABILITIES and they have to fight for years to even receive a disability pension. I wish this country would stop catering to the drug addict and take care of the people who truly need it. Methadone clinics are popping up as fast as new Walmarts!

• Anonymous

  Give them heroin and let nature take its course. Then there’d be no need for these profiteering poseur  peddlers of illicit drugs.

• Anonymous

  This just proves that these ‘for profit’ methadone peddlers have a lot of cash lying around, or why else would they spend their drug money on a small town in ME because it didn’t want to have a meth clinic within it’s boundaries?  They need to keep as many as possible addicted to methadone as it is their paycheck. Methadone clinics have killed several in our area.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SUJ5U3QBUNE3WOP6NK7PY3KPC4 Sarah

  They keep them on methodone for years before recoving in which many tax dollars pay for drug use… In my opinion… I completely disagree with methodone clinics!! Get off drugs if u want off… Its just another form in which our gov will give them drugs… So its easier and less stressful to get them through a clinic… If it was a 2 or 3 month deal to come off drugs it would be different… Instead it is a program in which they offer them drugs for years!!!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SUJ5U3QBUNE3WOP6NK7PY3KPC4 Sarah

  They keep them on methodone for years before recoving in which many tax dollars pay for drug use… In my opinion… I completely disagree with methodone clinics!! Get off drugs if u want off… Its just another form in which our gov will give them drugs… So its easier and less stressful to get them through a clinic… If it was a 2 or 3 month deal to come off drugs it would be different… Instead it is a program in which they offer them drugs for years!!!

• Anonymous

  Got to love it!!  Fighting over a “Meth Shop”    When will one of the new State “Pot Shops” show up in a law suit….GIVE EVERYONE WHAT THEY WANT WHO CARES IF THEY KILL THEMSELVES!!!

• Anonymous

  Got to love it!!  Fighting over a “Meth Shop”    When will one of the new State “Pot Shops” show up in a law suit….GIVE EVERYONE WHAT THEY WANT WHO CARES IF THEY KILL THEMSELVES!!!

• Anonymous

  How is a delay due to a town wanting to consider zoning laws with regard to a commercial business considered discrimination?!  I honestly think that to be considered ADA eligible a person should have a debilitating condition which they did not bring upon themselves, or were born with – not a condition which they freely and willingly brought upon themselves, especially when that act is obviously illegal and known by all to be very harmful and/or fatal!  Who is forcing drug users to use;  the “oppressive and unfair society” in which they live?… PLEASE!  What’s next, murderers and rapists will get ADA consideration because their feelings are hurt by having to go to jail?!  What a pathetic bunch of nonsense – take all these drug addict whiners and send them to the glue factory!

• Anonymous

  I wonder how many rubberstamped lawsuits they have filed all across the country they have out there….Im sure they would like to see their product on every street corner….like a Redbox for videos, only its methadone

• Anonymous

  This is not about a “meth shop”. It’s about a treatment clinic that uses methadone and counseling to help addicts get their lives back and beat their addictions. “Meth” is slang for methamphetamine which has nothing to do with methadone.

  If people would just understand what methadone is and how it works to treat addicts the arguments that it’s free dope, etc, wouldn’t come up. Methadone is very different from other opiates and among tolerant people, like methadone patients, methadone causes NO high, buzz, euphoria or intoxication. It is a medication used to treat addiction not another drug to make people addicted to. That’s a common misconception but it’s not true. People who participate in methadone treatment don’t do so for the same reason they used to use oxycontin, heroin, hydrocodone or whatever they used. Those drugs are used for their euphoric effects but methadone doesn’t cause that. They only use it to be able to abstain from drugs or, in a minority of cases, to prevent withdrawal symptoms.

• Anonymous

  No, I’m not mistaken. The topic of addiction and methadone treatment is something I know quite a bit about. I’ve had the pleasure to meet and talk to hundreds of methadone patients, I know many of them, I’ve been to a number of clinics and spoken to a number of treatment professionals. Fact is that methadone maintenance treatment works very well and so far it is the most effective treatment method for opiate addiction. It doesn’t work for everyone and there are those that don’t take their treatment seriously and continue to dabble with drugs on the side but the vast majority do very well in treatment and live completely normal lives. You would never know that these people were methadone patients if you met them.

  The fact that there is still drug abuse in the community and that it’s rising is not evidence that methadone doesn’t work. That argument is like saying that just because there are a bunch of diabetics in society insulin treatment doesn’t work.  There will always be new people becoming addicted and many addicts are not ready or able to get into treatment so regardless of how many clinics you have you will still have these people in the street. Prescription drug addiction is on the rise all over America. It’s not caused by methadone clinics and they can do little if anything to prevent it. They can only help the people once they have become addicted and are ready to accept help.
  Methadone clinics can only help those that come to their clinics. They have no impact on those that don’t which are the ones you see by your place. The clinics in Bangor are not bringing more active addicts to the area. The patients from other areas that attend the clinics in Bangor just come to the clinic on their scheduled days, get their medication, see the counselor and leave. They are not running around getting dope and committing crimes. It’s the Bangor residents that don’t attend a clinic that do that.

  If prescription drug abuse is so out of control on Bangor shouldn’t you welcome another clinic so that more people can get help and stop being a burden on society?

  FYI, there are 21 substance abuse treatment facilities within a 20 mile radius of Bangor. How do you know that it’s not these places that bring the addicts as you say? Also, would you say that AA/NA is a complete failure too since that has not succeeded in ridding society of addiction?

• Anonymous

  No, I’m not mistaken. The topic of addiction and methadone treatment is something I know quite a bit about. I’ve had the pleasure to meet and talk to hundreds of methadone patients, I know many of them, I’ve been to a number of clinics and spoken to a number of treatment professionals. Fact is that methadone maintenance treatment works very well and so far it is the most effective treatment method for opiate addiction. It doesn’t work for everyone and there are those that don’t take their treatment seriously and continue to dabble with drugs on the side but the vast majority do very well in treatment and live completely normal lives. You would never know that these people were methadone patients if you met them.

  The fact that there is still drug abuse in the community and that it’s rising is not evidence that methadone doesn’t work. That argument is like saying that just because there are a bunch of diabetics in society insulin treatment doesn’t work.  There will always be new people becoming addicted and many addicts are not ready or able to get into treatment so regardless of how many clinics you have you will still have these people in the street. Prescription drug addiction is on the rise all over America. It’s not caused by methadone clinics and they can do little if anything to prevent it. They can only help the people once they have become addicted and are ready to accept help.
  Methadone clinics can only help those that come to their clinics. They have no impact on those that don’t which are the ones you see by your place. The clinics in Bangor are not bringing more active addicts to the area. The patients from other areas that attend the clinics in Bangor just come to the clinic on their scheduled days, get their medication, see the counselor and leave. They are not running around getting dope and committing crimes. It’s the Bangor residents that don’t attend a clinic that do that.

  If prescription drug abuse is so out of control on Bangor shouldn’t you welcome another clinic so that more people can get help and stop being a burden on society?

  FYI, there are 21 substance abuse treatment facilities within a 20 mile radius of Bangor. How do you know that it’s not these places that bring the addicts as you say? Also, would you say that AA/NA is a complete failure too since that has not succeeded in ridding society of addiction?

• Anonymous

  Addicts who are in active addiction (still using drugs) are not eligible for protection by the ADA . Only recovering addicts have disabled status under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). But that doesn’t mean that they are entitled to any benefits. They definitely don’t get disability benefits. The only thing the ADA does is prevent discrimination against recovering addicts. There are many conditions that are considered a disability under the ADA that are not normally seen as a disability such as physical malformations that causes a person to look different. The government don’t want people to be discriminated against just because they have a malformation or because they are recovering addicts so for that reason it is considered to be a disability under the ADA.

  However, just because addiction is partially or wholly self inflicted does not mean that it’s not an illness. There are many illnesses that are self inflicted in one way or another. Obesity and the conditions that it causes is caused by overeating but that doesn’t mean that type 2 diabetes is not an illness. A person disabled from a motorcycle accident is still handicapped even though he caused it himself by driving recklessly. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

• Anonymous

  I disagree with this. At the DHS, there are pamphlets that say if you have a drug addiction problem, all you have to do is admit yourself to a drug rehab program, (such as Acadia) then apply for disability benefits. I see it all the time where I work. People who are in “active addiction” as you say, do it all the time. They are screwing over the government and it’s being allowed! THEN, they go to the methadone clinic, get their free high and get paid gas mileage…..take the gas mileage money, buy illegal drugs…..and the cycle goes on and on. Like I said, I know this happens, I SEE IT ALL THE TIME! And it’s all being done with OUR TAX DOLLARS!

  And I know what disabilities are. A person could be disabled, taking medication for it and become addicted to drugs. That’s different from the person who started doing drugs all on their own and is now receiving a disability pension. THEY are not disabled….THEY have a self-inflicted problem…..that we as tax payers should not be supporting!

• Anonymous

  Methadone treatment, on a whole, does not work. It should be a short-term program for the addict (if at all)…….not something that is allowed FOR YEARS! You need to jump the fence and see things from another angle. I work with the public and see what these people are doing. After their dose, they can barely function. They act like they’re on 10, talk rapidly, or are drooling on themselves and can’t function at all. I remember reading awhile back, about a woman coming home from her dosing, and she got in an accident. How many more of these accidents will it take to get thru to “the professionals” that this whole program is a waste of our money.

  You obvisously work for the program that promotes methadone treatment, so, of course you are going to say it works…..or you would be out of a job!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DSRNSNIOD3IVI5KF52JCSAZGFM Dawn

  There are several mistakes in this article. Please don’t take it as gospel.

• Anonymous

  THE JOB – URINE
  TEST(Whoever wrote this one deserves a HUGE pat on the
  back!)Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they
  pay me. Ipay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees
  fit. Inorder to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine
  testwith which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is
  thedistribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine
  test.Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check
  becauseI have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have
  noproblem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the otherhand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their butt,doingdrugs, while I work. . . Can you imagine how much money the state
  wouldsave if people had to pass a urine test to get a public
  assistancecheck?I guess we could title that program, ‘Urine or
  You’re Out’.Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don’t.
  Hope youall will pass it along, though. . Something has to
  change!

• Anonymous

  THE JOB – URINE
  TEST(Whoever wrote this one deserves a HUGE pat on the
  back!)Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they
  pay me. Ipay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees
  fit. Inorder to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine
  testwith which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is
  thedistribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine
  test.Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check
  becauseI have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have
  noproblem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the otherhand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their butt,doingdrugs, while I work. . . Can you imagine how much money the state
  wouldsave if people had to pass a urine test to get a public
  assistancecheck?I guess we could title that program, ‘Urine or
  You’re Out’.Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don’t.
  Hope youall will pass it along, though. . Something has to
  change!

• Anonymous

  THE JOB – URINE
  TEST(Whoever wrote this one deserves a HUGE pat on the
  back!)Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they
  pay me. Ipay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees
  fit. Inorder to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine
  testwith which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is
  thedistribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine
  test.Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check
  becauseI have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have
  noproblem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the otherhand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their butt,doingdrugs, while I work. . . Can you imagine how much money the state
  wouldsave if people had to pass a urine test to get a public
  assistancecheck?I guess we could title that program, ‘Urine or
  You’re Out’.Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don’t.
  Hope youall will pass it along, though. . Something has to
  change!

• Anonymous

  THE JOB – URINE
  TEST(Whoever wrote this one deserves a HUGE pat on the
  back!)Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they
  pay me. Ipay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees
  fit. Inorder to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine
  testwith which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is
  thedistribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine
  test.Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check
  becauseI have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have
  noproblem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the otherhand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their butt,doingdrugs, while I work. . . Can you imagine how much money the state
  wouldsave if people had to pass a urine test to get a public
  assistancecheck?I guess we could title that program, ‘Urine or
  You’re Out’.Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don’t.
  Hope youall will pass it along, though. . Something has to
  change!

• Anonymous

  THE JOB – URINE
  TEST(Whoever wrote this one deserves a HUGE pat on the
  back!)Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they
  pay me. Ipay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees
  fit. Inorder to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine
  testwith which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is
  thedistribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine
  test.Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check
  becauseI have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have
  noproblem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the otherhand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their butt,doingdrugs, while I work. . . Can you imagine how much money the state
  wouldsave if people had to pass a urine test to get a public
  assistancecheck?I guess we could title that program, ‘Urine or
  You’re Out’.Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don’t.
  Hope youall will pass it along, though. . Something has to
  change!

• Anonymous

  THE JOB – URINE
  TEST(Whoever wrote this one deserves a HUGE pat on the
  back!)Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they
  pay me. Ipay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees
  fit. Inorder to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine
  testwith which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is
  thedistribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine
  test.Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check
  becauseI have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have
  noproblem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the otherhand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their butt,doingdrugs, while I work. . . Can you imagine how much money the state
  wouldsave if people had to pass a urine test to get a public
  assistancecheck?I guess we could title that program, ‘Urine or
  You’re Out’.Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don’t.
  Hope youall will pass it along, though. . Something has to
  change!

• Anonymous

  Well i am not from ur town but let me tell you what….IT HASNT WORKED HERE EITHER!!

• Anonymous

  DISAGREE COMPLETELY, I had a child in the Methadone Clinic and i could tell when my child took it..corner of their mouth all turned down, scratchy voice, and very hyper, and high! Better til the next day when That Clinic feed my child there HELPING drug..Methadone!!

• Anonymous

  DISAGREE COMPLETELY, I had a child in the Methadone Clinic and i could tell when my child took it..corner of their mouth all turned down, scratchy voice, and very hyper, and high! Better til the next day when That Clinic feed my child there HELPING drug..Methadone!!

• Anonymous

  DISAGREE COMPLETELY, I had a child in the Methadone Clinic and i could tell when my child took it..corner of their mouth all turned down, scratchy voice, and very hyper, and high! Better til the next day when That Clinic feed my child there HELPING drug..Methadone!!

• Anonymous

  DISAGREE COMPLETELY, I had a child in the Methadone Clinic and i could tell when my child took it..corner of their mouth all turned down, scratchy voice, and very hyper, and high! Better til the next day when That Clinic feed my child there HELPING drug..Methadone!!

• Anonymous

  DISAGREE COMPLETELY, I had a child in the Methadone Clinic and i could tell when my child took it..corner of their mouth all turned down, scratchy voice, and very hyper, and high! Better til the next day when That Clinic feed my child there HELPING drug..Methadone!!

• Anonymous

  DISAGREE COMPLETELY, I had a child in the Methadone Clinic and i could tell when my child took it..corner of their mouth all turned down, scratchy voice, and very hyper, and high! Better til the next day when That Clinic feed my child there HELPING drug..Methadone!!

• Anonymous

  DISAGREE COMPLETELY, I had a child in the Methadone Clinic and i could tell when my child took it..corner of their mouth all turned down, scratchy voice, and very hyper, and high! Better til the next day when That Clinic feed my child there HELPING drug..Methadone!!

• Anonymous

  DISAGREE COMPLETELY, I had a child in the Methadone Clinic and i could tell when my child took it..corner of their mouth all turned down, scratchy voice, and very hyper, and high! Better til the next day when That Clinic feed my child there HELPING drug..Methadone!!

• Anonymous

  DISAGREE COMPLETELY, I had a child in the Methadone Clinic and i could tell when my child took it..corner of their mouth all turned down, scratchy voice, and very hyper, and high! Better til the next day when That Clinic feed my child there HELPING drug..Methadone!!