An affordable clinic is needed in this area. There is a lot of difficulty due for working clients because counselors don't come in early enough and workers are often kept waiting for them before they can be medicated. There have been administrative detoxes for petty disputes. Clinic management is generally unavailable to the early dosing clients to discuss matters such as this. Due to long lines, this opening hour frequently causes some patients to be late for work.
Patient feels that non-working patients be told to come in later.
Watchdog feels an earlier opening time would eliminate much of the problem. If patients were properly dosed, there would not be such an urgency to get there first thing in the morning. Stable patients would not feel 'sick' and have to go get their dose so early. While there are numerous veterans that are heroin addicts in Miami, this clinic had previously only been treating ten patients. In April they increased the number to 20 patients.