Revolver Found in Purse

ID: 1536
This file appears in: Nix Methadone Clinic

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

By Kyle Willshire
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…