“When it feels like you're going through hell, keep going.” - Sage Francis, artistI’ve lost more than a dozen friends in the last decade to opiate addiction. Like many towns in the commonwealth, mine was ravaged by opioids. There have been years so bad that the simple tone of one’s voice when asking a question like, “Hey, did you hear about so-and-so?” were subsequently concluded with news of someone’s death.

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