Health professionals criticize opposition to Amherst methadone clinic

At a meeting Thursday called by the Erie County Legislature to evaluate the county's efforts to battle drug addiction, two health professionals called for the proposed methadone clinic in Amherst to be embraced by the community, rather than pushed away. Anne Constantino is president of Horizon Health Services, a mental health and substance use treatment provider in Western New York. At the meeting, she called medication assisted treatments like methadone, Suboxone and others "the gold standard in treating people with opioid addiction".