A facility opening soon in Grass Valley is designed to help address the opioid addiction epidemic. But at a question and answer session on Monday, clinic officials were besieged by neighbors opposing the location. It’s a methadone dispensary, run by Aegis Treatment Centers, on Margaret Lane, and is scheduled to open in about a month, next to other medical facilities. But it’s also near a number of homes, and concerns from residents include increased crime. Although clinic officials say they notified neighbors about a year and a half ago, another neighbor, Sharon Koslosky, says she just found out about it today…

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Aegis clinical psychologist, Sarah Khwaja, says addicts will no longer have to drive to Marysville to get a dose and will only be at their facility for five-ten minutes a day, six days a week, while still getting counselling once a week at their Marysville facility…

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Meanwhile, Khwaja says another meeting to address neighbors’ concerns is planned soon. That includes more visibility, including improved lighting and reduction of shrubbery.