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Cape Cod's opioid crisis

As one of American's summer destinations, Cape Cod residents struggle with one of the countries highest rates of addiction.

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Cape Cod's opioid crisis

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  1. Cape Cod's opioid crisis

  2. Linda Cubellis, who has been running the group Parents Supporting Parents for six years and has witnessed firsthand the many lives lost to an overdose within her group alone, poses for a portrait in Sandwich, Massachusetts, March 21, 2022.

  3. A motel is closed for the winter season in the town of Truro, Massachusetts, February 19, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  4. Elizabeth Cleary, a Cape Cod resident for 33 years and former opiate and heroine user who has now spent the past 10 years of her life sober, poses for a portrait in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, March 21, 2022. "This needs to be talked about.

  5. Sand covers the stairs on Marconi Beach during the winter months in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, March 12, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  6. A hotel is left desolate and closed up for the off-season in Provincetown, Massachusetts, March 20, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  7. A woman in a winter coat looks out over the sand dunes of Marconi Beach during the early morning in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, March 12, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  8. A Cape Cod resort is seen empty of both tourists and water during the capes off-season in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, April 4, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  9. Condominiums are boarded up during the winter months due to winter storms in Truro, Massachusetts, March 20, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  10. A portrait of Glenn Bois, who died of an overdose on November 2, 2019, sits on the dashboard of his father David's truck in Dennis, Massachusetts, March 13, 2022.

  11. The Pilgrim Monument is seen from a distance along the snowy sand dunes in Provincetown, Massachusetts, February 19, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  12. Sergeant Ryan Carr of poses for a portrait inside the training room at the Dennis police department in Dennis, Massachusetts, February 18, 2022.

  13. Along one of the roads in Provincetown is a sign that guides tourists back to Route 6, the mid-Cape Cod highway or the beaches of Provincetown, Massachusetts, March 12, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  14. David Bois kneels in front of the site where his son Glenn was buried after he died of an overdose on November 2, 2019 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, January 19, 2022. David visits Glenn's grave at Chandler Gray Cemetery almost everyday.

  15. Condominiums are boarded up during the winter months due to winter storms in Truro, Massachusetts, March 20, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  16. The Marconi beach parking lot, a beach on Cape Cod that is typically packed with beachgoers and tourists is seen empty on an early winter morning in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, March 12, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  17. Ashlee Northup, 33, a resident of Cape Cod who has been sober for the past six years, poses for a portrait in Sandwich, Massachusetts, April 3, 2022. As a prior drinker, Northup knows firsthand what addiction is like.

  18. David Bois, 66, poses for a portrait wearing a hunting jacket that belonged to his son Glenn who died of an overdose on November 2, 2019 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, January 19, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  19. A hedge spells out the word "Cape Cod" as seen upon entering the mainland of the cape in Bourne, Massachusetts, February 25, 2022.  REUTERS/Mel Musto

  20. David Bois reads the letters that his son Glenn sent during his time in and out of both rehab and prison before he died of an overdose on November 2, 2019, as he sits in Glenn's room of David's house in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, January 19, 2022.

  21. One of the many journal entries Glenn Bois had written during his time both in prison and in rehab before he died of an overdose on November 2, 2019, is seen in Glenn's room of his father David's house in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, January 19,

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