Revolver Found in Purse
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Police would frequently stop by the methadone clinic to pick up drug offenders and other criminals the clinic attracted. This article details the arrest of a man and a woman at the Nix clinic in 1971 for carrying a concealed pistol.
Image Courtesy of The Times-Picayune.
This file appears in: Nix Methadone Clinic
Nix Methadone Clinic
The Carrollton neighborhood suffered through a heroin epidemic in the 1970s. Heroin use would decline throughout the U.S. in the 1980s as cocaine and crack use increased.
An addiction treatment pioneer who was ahead of his time, Dr. James T. Nix…