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Aug. 14, 2024 – “That’s the ‘Roach’s Inn’,” Richie said, as we drove past a dilapidated motel.

The Coaches’ Inn – it was the kind you see in the movies. “Dead bodies found in that place,” he said. I was in the car with Richie Armstrong and he was giving me a tour of his town. A boarded-up business was not something unusual in these parts. But in Huntington there was something different.

Along Main Street, but on the side streets too, there were recovery centres. They were everywhere.

We passed three centres for addiction recovery within one block. Richie knew them all. He’d recovered at two of them, he told me, and now worked at a third.  

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