The event is on Friday, August 17, 2012 at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
This event has been rescheduled for Friday, Aug. 17, still at 7 p.m. at Veterans Stadium in Quincy. Registration of names to be read starts at 6:30 p.m. Mayor Joseph Sullivan and Braintree’s Community Partnership on Substance Abuse will be joining with neighboring communities for a candlelight vigil to bring attention to the issue of substance addiction. Please join concerned citizens of Braintree, Quincy, Weymouth, Randolph, and other South Shore communities to remember those who lost their lives to drug overdose and to give hope to individuals struggling with addiction. Join us to reduce the stigma that surrounds addiction as were member friends, family and community members. Let’s stand together as a community to bring a face to these …
The presentation was put together by Impact Quincy with assistance from the Cambridge Prevention Coalition.
Donna Keith's son left for Arizona last December, looking for a break from the turmoil of his life in Pembroke. Following knee surgery in 2003, related to his years playing hockey, Paul J. DeVincent Jr. gained some weight, and eventually was prescribed OxyContin by a doctor. Like so many pain patients, DeVincent's legitimate use for the opioid – a synthetic cousin to heroin – transformed into an addiction. Just two months after arriving in Arizona, on Feb. 4, 2012, DeVincent used a highly potent batch of heroin and died of an overdose. "I didn't know heroin was the alternative to that drug," Keith said. "How would I know?" That lack of knowledge about the drugs that have increasingly been killing people in cities and towns throughout the…
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