Mass. and Cass, also known as Methadone Mile or Recovery Road, is an area in Boston, Massachusetts, located at and around the intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue.[1] 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 and drug addiction, especially after the closure of facilities on Long Island in Boston Harbor.[2][3][1] It has been characterized as "the epicenter of the region's opioid addiction crisis".[4][5]
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.[6] It is located in the area of Newmarket, an industrial part of Boston that includes some of Dorchester, South Boston, Roxbury, Boston, and the South End.[7][8]
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