Police Target Recovery Clinic
I thank you for your site -- it has been a great help to my wife -- reinforcing what I have been telling her for years -- and that is NOT to talk to the police. Anyway, I am a heroin addict who has been clean for 3.5 years thanks, in part, to the lifesaving drug known as methadone. A few police officers in my town have taken it upon themselves to hang out in front of the methadone clinic (the same one I attend) to "fish" for probation violators, those with outstanding warrants or expired tags on their vehicles. I have been hassled on three separate occasions -- each time I was asked to consent to a search of my vehicle (and each time I respectfully refused).
I have, in each instance, been extremely polite and respectful -- did as I was told and asked NO questions -- I am 100% legal now (despite my extensive criminal record) and I honestly feel that these cops have a hard-on for addicts in general, whether in recovery or not. Bottom line: It would be easy to consent to a search perhaps --- they wouldn't find a thing and I would be "free to go", but I flex my rights on principle.
