ALLOW CLINIC TO TREAT DISEASE OF ADDICTION

There seem to be a number of area residents who think keeping a methadone
clinic out of the area will deny opiate-addicts the treatment that they
need. At least that's the only point anyone seems to be arguing.

Think again, right-wingers. Not opening the clinic in Myrtle Beach will
just continue the inconvenience that methadone patients already experience.
There are surely a large number of people in the area who have come by the
addiction at no fault of their own. Why send them away?

Addiction is a disease, and almost any disease can be treated somewhere in
the greater Myrtle Beach area. Why make an exception?

Emerson H. Dyer Conway