By William Tauro
This past Thursday evening, Somerville Overcoming Addiction held its 3rd Annual Vigil at the steps of the Fieldhouse that’s located on Highland Avenue next-door to the Somerville High School.
Over one hundred people attended the event including students, politicians, police and firefighters
SOA – Somerville Overcoming Addiction was founded after Governor Deval Patrick announced that we, the citizens of the Commonwealth had a State of Emergency, an Epidemic with drugs addiction, March of 2014.
After a community meeting was called ,the people of the new SOA group started meeting regularly and wanted action to help save lives if not only their children and family , others as well with education and awareness.
Their group is made up of mothers, fathers, grand parents, persons in recovery, brothers and sisters.
SOA’s Mission is:
To connect the community with addiction support and recovery services, remove stigma of addiction, and eliminate overdose fatalities in Somerville.
To contact Somerville Overcoming Addiction
Like them : facebook.com/Somerville Overcoming Addiction
Join them at : somervilleovercomingaddiction@gmail.com