1.   Even with other rehabilitation programs that do not prescribe methadone, there is a shortage of treatment slots, he said.

2.   For every ten heroin addicts, there are only one or two methadone treatment slots.

3.   Many of them need help and want desparately to stop using, but jail cells outnumber treatment program slots.

4.   Newman said that the real need in New York City was for more treatment slots.

5.   The plan calls for more prenatal services and more drug treatment slots for troubled mothers.

6.   What is needed now are more treatment slots for addicts, especially those who are mentally ill or pregnant.

7.   While welcoming these developments, physicians warn that Orlaam will do nothing to address the drastic shortage of treatment slots that has long plagued the state.

8.   Yet despite the demand for treatment slots, a new state-run drug program is being drastically underused because local district attorneys find it inadequate.