Dunmore, PA Residents Comment on Opposition to Methadone Clinic (Local)

Dunmorons Speak: "Not in My Back Yard!"

DUNMORE, PA —I’ve been following this (local) story on SWALLOW from the beginning, but only just recently felt the need to start participating in the comments being posted on this article on the Scranton Times-Tribune Website*, because the rampant ignorance was just becoming way too much for me to ignore.

• *The Scranton Times-Tribune: Methadone clinic hearing continued after ownership questioned

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Please enjoy some choice selections from the online comments:

• “No one but themselves stuck the needle in their arm and made them junkies…”
  —by Jack
• “Keep the crap out of Dunmore…”
  —by Tony Naro
• “The people that have illegal addictions should be left on their own as punishment for their illegal activities.”
  —by Tim

• “What in Gods name kind of benefit would this have to the residents of Dunmore?”
  —by Salvatore Clemente
• “Lets deal with our problems first before we take the problems and “rehabilitation ” of others on our backs.”
  —by Salvatore Clemente
• “Dunmore has enough problems lets not bring everyone else s here…”
  —by Not in my backyard
• “N_O_T in our towns limits. It just dosn’t belong here.”
  —by Guess Who ???
• “Once a junkie, always a junkie. Methadone is like putting a band-aid on a sucking chest wound.”
  —by Oh No
• “I don’t want H addicts stopping at the Dunmore Candy Kitchen or Cara Mia’s!”
  —by Dunmore Buck
• “I don’t want drug addicts getting their treatments and stopping at Dunkin Donuts for coffee and a smoke.”
  —by Dunmore Buck
• “I say keep them out for good. They don’t belong here. Not in my backyard!”
  —by Dunmore Buck
• “You people are crazy if you let this thing in.”
  —by Mr. David Foglietta

‘Nuff said? -Ed.

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