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About 50 people gathered at City Hall Park in Burlington on Thursday to remember those who died from substance use.
It’s the third year that Team Sharing, a group of local parents who have lost children to overdoses, has organized the event. Family members, advocates and politicians spoke behind a display of photographs of those lost.
Still, some found reason to hope. Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak told the crowd that an overdose-prevention site will be open in Burlington by next year's event. The center will provide a place for people to use illegal drugs under supervision, with staff on hand to intervene if somebody overdoses.
“This cannot be understated: Lives will be saved when the doors open of an overdose-prevention center here in Burlington,” Mulvaney-Stanak said, to cheers and applause. “I’m going to say it again, because there are naysayers still: Lives will be saved.
Rep. Taylor Small (P/D-Winooski) spoke about the years of advocacy in Montpelier that contributed to the overdose-prevention site's eventual approval.
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