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267vide otlier ways to take care of your addict population rather thanrelying on methadone 'iMr. HoRAN. Yes ; I would.Mr. Raj^-gel. And you also say if the situation gets so bad in yourcommunity that there is no way out except methadone, then, andonly then, will you consider this ?Mr. HoRAx. Absolutely.Mr. Rangel. I am asking you, would you not give the sam.e considerationto the District of Columbia and the population of NewYork City, that is, until you can evaluate that our addict populationhas reached that point then you would have this same reservation aboutthe distribution of methadone for any community ?Mr. HoRAx. I sure would.Mr. Rangel. I am only hoping that the medical profession willshare your ideas.in evaluatingMr. H0R.VX. Of course, Mr, Rangel, my difficulty isNew York. I, necessarily, have to rely on what Dr. Dole is saying,Dr. Gollance is saying, what New Yorli's experts are saying about theirpopulation, and they tell me in their writings that what they areessentially aiming at is the guy who has been in the vein for many,many years, the guy who is just fully, totally, and completely hookedon heroin.They are saying to me the only way we can treat them is with methadone.My answer is, I don't know.But I do know this, that I don't think methadone is the answerif you have got a guy only 2 years in the vein and if they are committingNew York addicts with 2 years in the vein to methadone,I think they are wrong.I think they should be going some other route of treatment,]\Ir.Raxgel. So if my breed of addict, or a part of my breed ofaddict, is similar to what you described as similar to Fairfax County'sbreed of addict, we would share the same ideas ?Mr. lioRAx. Yes ; I don't think the addict, the IT-, 18-, 19-year old,I don't think he should be committed to a methadone mamtenanceprogram at that age or with that short a term of addiction. When Ittilk of breed of addict, really what I am talking about is in NewYork where you have a lot of people who have been in the vein 10years, I don't have any of those. But I think that those that are inthe same position as mine, the 18-year old who has been in the veinfor a year, I don't agree with New York putting him on methadoneany more than I agree with Fairfax County putting him onmethadone.Mr. Raxgel. Mr. Chairman, I want to join in with my colleaguesand thank the staff for bringing Mr. Horan before us. I think it substantiatesthe fact that not everyone has just accepted methadone asa solution to our present problem.Thank you, Mr. Horan.Chairman Pepper. We all will profit very much from your testimony.We have some more questions.Mr. Winn.Mr. Wixx. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.