problem for us. we re going to be a model for the commonwealth and the nation on how we save our young people and save our community. [ applause ] anthony: the city is the place where all the bad stuff was supposed to happen, it was not suppose to be nice towns like greenfield. man: it isn t the image that people used to have 20 years ago that it s a junkie in an alley somewhere using a needle. it s not. it s your kids, it s your neighbors. chris: the worst i think is when you have these young people who break a leg and they go to the doctor and get a prescription for oxy and become addicted to it. these are any kid who plays a high school sport. it s a horrible circumstance when that happens. man 2: it s only started in the past couple years. yeah, the heroin was around. pills were around but we didn t have people dying. anthony: once you ve been busted for heroin, that s a hard thing to live down. chris: got to get rid of that shame factor so people can deal with it, addr
woman: that was amazing. man: absolutely. chris: everybody s attention for a second. the opiod education and awareness task force came together several months ago. i don t think we realized how quickly this could turn into a crisis for us. anthony: everybody in this room has been touched by or impacted by narcotics in some way. the franklin county opiod safety task force is a grassroots response. doctors, law enforcement led by franklin county sheriff, chris donilon. addiction specialists and addicts themselves are coming together to find a community-based solution to what is finally being recognized as a public health crisis rather than simply a criminal justice problem. chris: a great opportunity to come here tonight to break bread and look at the successes that we have had so far. i think what makes me more proud than anything else about living in franklin county is that we will not sit back and wait for anybody else to solve this
anthony: started nearly a decade ago in one of the two main streets of greenfield, the recover project is community-based. an open arms program aimed at helping addicts stay clean. woman: given the opiate heroin epidemic in our community, we d like to start the conversation. just kind of sharing with one another. you know, what happened at that point of our life, what that was like. heather: so as a child growing up in a home in addiction, i didn t understand how they could do all and my brother and sister. like don t you love me enough? then i became a mother, and then i became a heroin addict. and i did all that stuff to my kids. biggest drug dealer. i fell down a flight of stairs, i just remarried, i had a baby. was working two jobs, college on top of it. next thing you know i m on these prescriptions. that s where it all began for me. man: what are the odds you re going to own a house? what s the odds you re going to have a nice car?
1912. club leader ray takes me through the fascinating and arcane process of creating an old-school clambake. ray: basically we build a kiln with hardwood and stone. we burn it down, remove the wood. we cover it in seaweed and corn husks. and we put our clams and lobsters and corn in there. like a pressure cooker. anthony: we ve got a pig hiding in there also. ray: no, no, no. we re going to pull a tusker out right now, and you ll see what we have here. anthony: let s eat. ray: all right. [ laughter ] anthony: first some good chowder and there really is only one kind of chowder. new england clam chowder. mm-mm. that is good. steamer clams, lobster, corn, potatoes. that s a pretty luxurious clambake here.
alley is where time seems anyway to have stopped. first opened in 1906, this is the second oldest bowling alley in america. dedicated to old school new england-style candle pin bowling. the holy rollers, a crowd of septuagenarians who grew up in shellburn and plan, and this is a reasonable expectation, to kick my ass. they ve been playing here since the 50s. woman: i was never allowed to come near the bowling alley. anthony: really? this was a den of inequity? woman: this was my aunt did not think this was a good idea. anthony: oh, man. it s a tiny little ball. this looks really hard. all right. [ cheering ] woman: it s very different, shellburn falls. i grew up here. very different. people don t know each other as well as everyone used to know each other.