Clinic will shut its doors on Friday leaving more than 10% of the state’s methadone users without treatment
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Frankston Healthcare Medical Centre, a private general practice with 1,800 drug-addicted patients on its books, treats 12% of people in the state receiving pharmacotherapy treatment.However, it will be forced to close down after the funding the Victorian government promised to provide while its full-time GP was on leave fell through, the director of the centre, Nadia Siciliano said.
Siciliano said she believed the closure would push the 500 patients they treat each week towards the emergency departments.Matthew, a long term heroin user, told Guardian Australia without methadone the experience of withdrawals are “indescribably terrible”.