Methadone’s effect on addicts and communites

Eric Alamo shielded his eyes from the sun as he walked out of the Carmen Iris Capeles Treatment Clinic on Westchester Avenue.  It was an unusually hot and humid August day in Hunts Point. Alamo had walked three miles for a fifteen-minute appointment, his shirt drenched with sweat from his trek. It wasn’t much better inside—the air conditioner wasn’t working. Read the full story