Clinics Pay Addicts to Stay Off Drugs (AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060208/ap_on_he_me/paying_addicts"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060208/capt.fx10702080023.paying_addicts_fx107.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=E3XbbNmmz2IYLQa6H_wzDw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Methamphetamine addict Allen Price, 43, left, sits while technician David Pasol reads Price's urine test results at the Positive Reinforcement Opportunity Project (PROP) in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006. When a friend told Price about a 12-week program in San Francisco that would pay him up to $40 per week just to stay clean, he decided it was just what he needed. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - There are worse things you can do for money than stay off drugs. "And I've done them, too," chuckled Allen Price, a 43-year-old methamphetamine addict from Oakland, Calif.</p><br clear=all>