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Methadone Mile
Mass. and Cass, also known as Methadone Mile or Recovery Road, is an area in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, located at and around the intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue (metropolitan Boston), Massachusetts Avenue. Due to its concentration of neighborhood services providing help, the area around Mass. and Cass has long attracted a large number of people struggling with Homelessness in Massachusetts, homelessness and drug addiction, especially after the closure of facilities on Long Island (Massachusetts), Long Island in Boston Harbor. It has been characterized as "the epicenter of Greater Boston, the region's opioid addiction crisis". It was, for many years, a tent city and open air drug market. The tents were removed in the fall of 2023. As of September 2024, the tents were mostly gone but it was still a gathering place for the homeless and drug users. It is located in the area of Newmarket, an industrial part of Boston that includes some of Dorchester, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
