methadone

Around 28,500 people are enrolled in methadone clinics across the city.

'We've said to the police we don't care for them to be arrested, we're not looking for them to be thrown in jail. What we really just would like them to do is go away.'

The Times investigates an 8th Avenue restaurant, where drunks and drug addicts pass out or sell loose cigarettes—and harder stuff, too.

"She bought that methadone her damn self."

The mother, who has two prior drug arrests, told police she has a prescription for methadone, but it is unclear why she was storing it in the medicine bottle.