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As pandemic wears on, despair along Boston’s Methadone Mile deepens
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The corridor around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard at the edge of Roxbury and the South End — one of Boston’s roughest areas, known widely as Methadone Mile — has deteriorated during the pandemic.
It has become more crowded with people who are homeless and those suffering from addiction; also more violent, grimy, and forbidding, a procession of despair and disability, a place where too many live, suffer, and die.
While city life has largely receded over the past six months, the crisis here has only worsened, a fact city officials attribute to the virus.
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