If we go to a methadone clinic, we get a number.

I am asked every few weeks by a patient in our methadone clinic.

Another missed practice because he was in a methadone clinic.

After the hospital, they had the methadone clinic here, a few months.

"A lot of middle-class people are just not going to walk into a methadone clinic and stand in line every day," Alex said.

About 1,800 addicts crowd the seven methadone clinics on the Island, up 30 percent in the last four years.

China now has 8 methadone clinics but wants to reach up to 5,000 by 2010.

The number of methadone clinics is expected to reach 1,000 by 2007.

"I thought it was going to look like a methadone clinic," she said.

The house's last official use was as a methadone clinic several years ago.