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WCVB Supports Addiction Recovery


Topic: Drug Prevention
Posted on 7/1/2018

Hearst’s ABC affiliate WCVB-TV Boston led a makeover of the Dimock Center’s Askia House residence for men in recovery. The effort is part of its ‘5 Fixer Upper’ community engagement program within ‘5 On: State of Addiction,’ the station’s three-year initiative to provide intense coverage of the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts. Dimock’s recovery program at the Askia House provides housing for up to one year for men battling substance use disorder. Also participating with volunteer days at the site were the Red Sox Foundation, The Letters Foundation and the Tufts Health Plan Employee Volunteer Program.



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