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Georgia a magnet for methadone clinics
July 28, 2017 Ringgold - Exterior of Private Clinic North on Chickamauga Ave in Rossville on Friday, July 28, 2017. A new law gives Georgia a little more power to address potential problems of methadone clinics. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
Georgia is home to more methadone clinics than any of its neighbors and some fear a new law will make the state attractive to even more.
“We’ve got plenty in Georgia,” said Catoosa County Coroner Venita Hullander, who worked with legislators on a law that took effect in May and sets a cap of four clinics in each of 49 newly-designed regions.
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Hullander wonders if that will only encourage clinics to locate in those areas – like Cobb and DeKalb Counties – that do not already have four clinics that use methadone, a narcotic, to help addicts ween themselves of addictions to other drugs.
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