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A healthcare company proposed putting a methadone drug treatment center in Conway earlier this year.

If it had been successful, the clinic would have been the only one of its kind in the North Country.

But Conway residents and town officials rallied against it. The image of drug addicts lining up for their methadone treatment was not one that Conway wanted to project.

So addicts up north have to commute--sometimes more than a hundred miles a day--if they want to get treatment. It's costly, and it's time consuming. But they do it to stay clean.

NHPR correspondent Erik Eisele reports.

One Note. In order to protect their identities, we have changed the names of the people interviewed for this story.