At the Portland clinic, patients are not willing to wait. They know what they are doing is illegal. It's obvious what we are trying to do here. Like most of the people at the clinic, Joe, a vocational counselor, did not want his full name published. Nobody here is acting like an idiot.
Patients carefully protect the center's secrecy.
A reporter, who heard about the clinic from a patient, was allowed to visit on the condition that the location would not be disclosed. The address and telephone number are not published in any public directory. We are concerned about vandalism, about our safety when it comes to people thinking that there are a lot of drugs here and a lot of money. A shelf piled with medical pamphlets, books and magazines slices the room. The patients who come here are not satisfied with the conventional medical care they receive.