METHADONE CLINICS IMPERIL THE PEACE OF PIKESVILLE

Residents and store owners in south Pikesville are greatly disturbed by a
proposal to locate two for-profit methadone treatment clinics near the
intersection of Slade Avenue and Reisterstown Road ("Residents want health
officials to deny methadone licenses," March 20).

They believe the clinics would serve 300 to 600 people who would come from
Baltimore City by bus or subway. Residents of the immediate area, who are
predominantly senior citizens living in homes and condominiums in which
they have substantial investments, resent this intrusion into their
neighborhood.

No one disputes the need for methadone treatment centers, but the choice of
the two Pikesville locations defies logic. And the fact that they would be
situated close to each other is outrageous.

This plan should be stopped in its tracks.

Albert E. Denny,
Pikesville