Bebe HeiskellMethadone clinics and other drug treatment facilities aren’t welcome in Walker County, Ga.
County Sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell amended the county’s zoning ordinance Thursday to ban them in unincorporated areas of the county.
“They need to be in the inner cities where the people are,” she said.
Heiskell isn’t alone in opposing the idea of a rural setting for methadone clinics, which dispense the legal synthetic narcotic to help patients addicted to heroin, morphine and oxycontin.
Dade County commissioners voted unanimously in April 2011 to ban methadone clinics in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the Tri-State Treatment methadone clinic from opening in the county’s north end near Interstate 24.