750 3 minutes read On Feb. 10, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s Medication Assisted Therapy clinic in Sequim, Washington, won in court with a ruling against clinic opponents. The court found the opponents had no standing in a suit to stop the clinic. This might sound like a simple zoning and land use squabble in a small rural town. In actuality, much more is at stake. Reactionary organizers have pitted themselves against a sovereign Native tribe attempting to provide direly needed healthcare to a community suffering from addiction. Clallam County has been ravaged by the opioid crisis. The scale of the problem is on par with some of the most harshly affected areas of West Virginia. This issue is one that has hit the Indigenous communities of Washington particularly hard. Washington Natives die from opioids and heroin at three-to-four times the rate of non-Natives. As a response, in 2019 the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe purchased a roughly 60-acre plot of land in Sequim for the purpose of constructing a Medication Assisted Therapy clinic.