Putnam County has taken legal action to halt the opening of a proposed methadone clinic just outside of Cookeville.
In a suit filed Oct. 22 in Putnam County Chancery Court, the county seeks a judicial review of the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission’s decision to issue a Certificate of Need to Cedar Recovery of Middle Tennessee, LLC, allowing the latter to operate the nonresidential methadone clinic as an opiate addiction treatment service. The clinic is planned to be located at 1805 Burgess Falls Road…