Physician set to open Urbana clinic for heroin addicts

URBANA – John Peterson usually knows long before police if there's bad heroin on the streets.

The veteran doctor has worked at a methadone clinic in Downers Grove for seven years and is just weeks away from getting a slightly different, less-regulated type of opiate-recovery clinic running in his hometown.

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