How an American Psychiatrist Inspired a Street Name in Germany--and Why That's So Unusual

In 1992, a Dutch physician named Josh von Soer Clemm von Hohenberg wrote a letter to Henning Voscherau, the mayor of Hamburg, Germany, requesting to name a street after Marie Nyswander.The doctor had never met Marie, but had founded a clinic treating people with drug addiction, and had seen methadone treatment, co-developed by Marie, save lives.

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