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The Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic and addiction medicine
1967
558 Clayton Street, San Francisco
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David Smith, a toxicologist, opened a clinic upstairs on Clayton Street to deal with the casualties of the Summer of Love, bad trips, overdoses, hepatitis from shared needles. Treating addiction as a medical problem rather than a criminal one was novel enough that the protocols worked out here became the basis of addiction medicine as a speciality, and Smith founded its first journal. The clinic is still open.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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