11.   The methadone maintenance clinic is down the block.

12.   Then she heard about the recently opened Tri City Institute -- methadone clinic to the rich and famous.

13.   Both women ended up at methadone treatment clinics, where addicts get a dose of the synthetic opiate to prevent withdrawals while being weaned from heroin.

14.   Until now, methadone clinics have been inspected by the Food and Drug Administration, but those inspections were widely criticized as inadequate and the FDA is quitting them.