Petition for healthy and effective addiction treatment

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This doesn’t make sense to have a treatment center right in the heart of massive supply of drugs right outside on the street.

I am a longtime resident and former business owner on West Baltimore St. The surrounding communities have worked for years to bring life back to this commercial strip. The zoning change that would allow This NY real estate company to make massive amounts of money by renting to a highly profitable drug rehab business - at the expense of all the community efforts to improve this neighborhood should be a nonstarter when presented to the Baltimore City Council. The area is saturated with drug treatment centers, methadone clinics, halfway houses - and of course, open air drug markets. Do not allow all the investments - both private and public - to be undone by allowing this money making drug treatment center to exist in a building that was renovated at great expense for a Learning Center - that was a permitted use that was really beneficial to this community. Please VOTE AGAINST a ZONING CHANGE for this address.

I am a neighbor. I want safe and healthy development. This is not that.

Please do not allow an addiction building to exist at 1200 West Baltimore street. Thank you.

5 years ago Featured

If one was sincerely interested in helping those struggling with addiction then why in the world would one bring recovering addicts to a location directly across the street from an open-air drug market? Perhaps being offered drugs every time one leaves the facility has been shown to facilitate long-term sobriety? Perhaps the operators believe their clients will be magically protected from bullets (the latest shooting victim on that block was shot three days ago, March 15)? I’d love to see some evidence that this proposed facility is less about the financial well-being of the operators than the well-being of the clients. If anyone you love and care about is in need to treatment I would highly urge you to help find a facility where their health and well-being wouldn’t be so much in jeopardy.

Our neighborhoods in SW are already over saturated with private for profit drug rehab centers and for profit drug residential centers. This center impacts all of our neighborhoods and decreases quality of life.

Having a drug Distrubuter so close to drug rehabilitation center is a bad idea the activity triggers drug use and is counter affective. Plentiful options for drug rehab and use are abundant in this area .

This was a center for the community at one time, and on a corridor that has seen vast improvements. It bewilders me why the city would even entertain a use that would detract from the great strides SW has made.

I oppose this plan!

Divine Light is an addiction treatment center. It is operated by a private for-profit organization. Divine Light provides buprenorphine detox and suboxone prescription. Some of the treatment approaches used by Divine Light include relapse prevention treatment, CBT and dialectical behavior therapy. Divine Light also specializes in detox services and offers Benzodiazepines Detox, Opioid Detoxification and Cocaine Detoxification. Divine Light provides partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient treatment program and outpatient detox. It also provides detox, transitional and sober living and substance use treatment. Other addiction treatment offered includes gambling disorder treatment. The building is not zoned for in-house partial hospitalization or to be a sober living facility, is it? We really do not need this type of center in our community. It is located directly across the street from the busiest drug intersection on Baltimore Street. This is surely not the smartest place for addiction treatment, it would seem that it might make it harder for those in recovery and most certainly not a "Devine" ray of sunshine in our neighborhood. This will help to maintain the derelict nature of this street, instead of transforming Baltimore Street into a vibrant mixed-use district for small businesses to thrive and economic recovery of this once beautiful commercial district.

We already have multiple of these facilities with in a half mile of this location.

No treatment centers in residential areas

Seen more of these go wrong than right. Unfortunately.

5 years ago Featured

I completely support rehab facilities and I believe they are important and should be in our neighborhood. But they should also be in other neighborhoods. When you put all of them into one area you end up with a situation where those seeking help are bombarded with offers to lead them astray. It is never a good idea to have one industry dominate a neighborhood, and right now that is happening here as those receiving treatment already outnumber residents within a several block radius. Please spread out the facilities around the city for the sake of all involved.

5 years ago Featured

I am a long term resident of the community. Our community right now is unable to support any more drug treatment centers given the large amount of drug rehab that we currently already have in the area. Concentrating drug rehab into one neighborhood has a detrimental effect

We don't need this in our neighborhood. How many for profit drug treatment and dealers can one neighborhood have? That is all our neighborhood has right now, maybe something more positive can happen in that space.

I don't believe this is a good environment for this type of care.