Anchor Recovery Community Center to host vaccine clinic
ANCHOR RECOVERY Community Center, a program run by The Providence Center, is hosting a COVID-19 vaccine clinic on May 11.
PROVIDENCE – A COVID-19 vaccination clinic is scheduled for May 11 at The Providence Center’s Anchor Recovery Community Center.
Organizers are hoping that the event will draw people who are in recovery from substance or alcohol abuse so that the center can resume in-person community center time, which has not been held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Providence Center’s Anchor Recovery Community Center is eager to provide members in recovery, a fast, easy, convenient way to get vaccinated, so they can feel safe returning to in-person support,” said Raina Smith, spokeswoman for Care New England, which owns The Providence Center.
Philip estimates that he injected $1 million into each of his scar-tracked arms during the 18 years he lost to heroin.
He watched his Fall River home with its granite countertops, his job as a truck driver, his marriage, and his relationship with his two young children evaporate as quickly as the money he used to keep the sickness of withdrawal at bay.
“It’s a chase every day, from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed,” Philip said.
“I lost everything, just for a drug.”
Philip arrived late to heroin, first snorting it at a friend’s urging at age 27 after becoming hooked on the Percocet that had been prescribed for a back injury. Within a week, his days and nights were ruled by the quest to get more heroin by any means. He’d inject some $450 worth a day. He’d buy it in Providence and sell it in Fall River at a $150 profit to fuel his habit.