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Link: Philadelphia Inquirer

They call the plan - which awaits final approval from the political appointees on the board of directors of the South Jersey Port Corp. - illogical.

Still, opponents of the move have seized on the idea of having Cooper accept responsibility for the clinic. And the medical director of an award-winning methadone clinic at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, in Baltimore, believes they may have a point.

Recovering drug addicts are a "pretty acute population" because many neglect their medical care, according to Kenneth Stoller, medical director of addiction-treatment services at Bayview.

Methadone Clinic