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That you dont have to see those patients on a daily basis. so now you can cut back on your staff, you dont have to have as many people manning the office. >> this is a less labor intensive way of administering the drug than -- and if youre in the business of keeping labor costs low and, you know, intake high, you might be incentivized to do that. >> i want to say something about those proposed bills. one of the things that concerns me is that there are a number of methadone programs around the c...

Better at, as times goes on? >> emphatically, no. unfortunately, thats -- obviously, we are making some strides in research, but we are not that good, in terms of drug treatment in general. there are a few programs and theyre usually associated with research at top-notch universities. but in general, most of the drug treatment programs out here are woefully inadequate. >> why are they woefully inadequate? >> ignorance. in part, theres so much ignorance in terms of what we think about drug addict...

The methadone clips. why would a for-profit center have more incentive to give people a take-home dose than a non-profit center? >> that means that you have -- that you dont have to see those patients on a daily basis. so now you can cut back on your staff, you dont have to have as many people manning the office. >> this is a less labor intensive way of administering the drug than -- and if youre in the business of keeping labor costs low and, you know, intake high, you might be incentivized to ...

Have more incentive to give people a take-home dose than a non-profit center? >> that means that you have -- that you dont have to see those patients on a daily basis. so now you can cut back on your staff, you dont have to have as many people manning the office. >> this is a less labor intensive way of administering the drug than -- and if youre in the business of keeping labor costs low and, you know, intake high, you might be incentivized to do that. >> i want to say something about those pro...

We have to find treatment programs and make them available, methadone programs and not have methadone centers have to deal with the politics of sometimes not in my back yard politics. we just need to have a different approach. but much money needs to go into mental health and health care and rehabilitation on folks that do get addicted. and for those people that el is it, i think we need to have strict measures. those people need to be dealt with by incarceration. a lot of people are locked up f...