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juice bar
 n.— «Toni Phipps, interim director of the state’s Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, said clinic operators “were basically running a juice bar,” doling out methadone while providing little or no treatment.» —“Three methadone clinics to close” in Portland, Ore. AP Jan. 22, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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