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Low around 15F. Winds light and variable. Updated: February 9, am. To combat the stress and isolation of the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, Brett Luongo turned to yoga, meditation and hiking. These were skills he learned early on in his recovery from opioid addiction, finding ways to fill his time with meaningful activity that kept him on a path Homelexsness.

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Meetings went virtual, and Luongo attended several, knowing the impact they have on finding and maintaining recovery. But he was also at a point where he had worked on himself enough and trusted his ability to look inward for relief. Keeping connected to a core group of others in recovery he had built as his support network. And suddenly, they found themselves battling two diseases that butt heads. Treatment centers for addiction were forced to pare down their offerings and go virtual to ward off coronavirus, at the same time demand for services was constant, if not increasing. Families of those battling addiction found themselves at a crossroad: Would they risk sending their loved one to a treatment center, where coronavirus had the potential to spread to fatal levels like it did in nursing homes and prisons across the area?

Or was it safer to put off residential treatment — knowing that addiction could easily be The Epidemic Of Homelessness as fatal, and the risk of catching coronavirus on the streets was just as real? And those seeking The Epidemic Of Homelessness had to work even harder for it, forging connections online to stave off the isolation that the pandemic and addiction both crave, for different reasons.

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In November, the state Department of Public Health reported that the number of fatal overdoses in the first nine months of surpassed that of the same period in by 33 more deaths. At the national level, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning that there could be a record-high number of fatal drug overdoses inespecially after reports that over 81, people died of drug overdoses in a month period ending in May Foxboro police saw six additional calls last year, up to 26 from The Epidemic Of Homelessness Overdose calls in Norton nearly doubled, jumping from 13 in to 25 in Their largest quarter was April through June, where they saw nine overdoses as the pandemic raged.

How many people met addiction for the first time during the The Epidemic Of Homelessness How many in recovery faced a relapse? How many people struggled to find resources because of it?

Luongo, a former North Attleboro resident, knows people in all three categories. He watched Homelessjess people with anywhere from 10 days to 20 years clean struggled with the isolation the pandemic wrought. But he has also encountered people with less clean time than the pandemic, which means some people are finding recovery in spite of it.]