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Malden Cares Offers Recovery Lifeline

(Left to Right): Paul Hammersley, founder of Malden Cares, recovery coaches Kenny Gumes, Sandra Wood and PJ Bell. The Malden Cares recovery coaches go around Malden, knocking on doors to provide residents with addiction recovery resources. Photo courtesy of Malden Cares/Paul Hammersley.

The organization, which works out of the Health and Human Services Department, has helped cut opioid overdose numbers in half since it began in 2021

THE WAITING GAME

He’s been to shelters, he has a case worker, doctors will help him—but how much longer can he wait? Meet Billy, one of the many sources informing “Cambridge Unhoused,” who sells Spare Change News in Central Square

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