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Fears for addicts as clinic faces closure

Southside campaigner has warned the HSE that scores of recovering drug addicts will be driven back to heroin if it proceeds with plans to close a local methadone treatment clinic.

Late last year the HSE announced that the Aisling methadone maintenance clinic, located on the site of Cherry Orchard Hospital, would close at the end of this month.

Approximately 270 recovering addicts currently use the Aisling Clinic, which is the largest of its kind in the country.

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Source: Dublin People, 19/03/2012

Posted by Andy on 03/19 at 10:20 AM in
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