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Opioid-affected Families are Learning to Cope

Dominique Simon May 24, 2016
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© Craig F. Walker for the Boston Globe

(From the Boston Globe, April 16, 2016)

TAUNTON — Joanne Peterson has attended more than 100 funerals for opioid victims, and she long ago learned the words to all the songs she hears at the services. But she no longer attends the wakes.

“I could not look at another young person in a casket,” Peterson said. “There are some days when I just start crying.”

The toll is understandable. Week after week, month after month, year after year for more than a decade, Peterson has been the grass-roots face of the fight to stem the opioid epidemic that is killing an average of four people a day in Massachusetts. READ THE ARTICLE

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Dominique Simon
Dominique launched Allies in Recovery in 2003. Her work has been featured on HBO and NPR. She is a facilitator and a trained speaker on issues of addiction and the family. She has worked extensively developing and evaluating federally-funded substance abuse programs for organizations and clinics throughout Massachusetts and New York. With an interest in recovery and substance abuse that spans 20 years, she sees a huge need to help families develop the skills to help a loved one recover fully in a supportive, whole, and lasting way in their families and in their communities. Her mission is to have Allies in Recovery fill that gap.

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