Victoria experienced horrific abuse when she was just six years old. She didn’t tell anyone about it for years and instead tucked her pain deep inside, where it haunted her. At 13, she got her first glimpse of relief when her friend’s uncle invited them to try what he was smoking. Victoria doesn’t remember what it was, but she remembers how it made her feel: numb to the pain she’d been feeling for years, even though she was just a teenager.

Evaristo, a resident of Union Gospel Mission’s LifeChange recovery community, has helped save four people from overdose in the last year.

A few years ago, Kris wanted to die. He was more than a decade into addiction and had reached the end of his rope. “Every single morning I’d wake up just miserable,” he says.

You may have seen the news that Multnomah County, the city of Portland and the state of Oregon jointly declared a 90-day state of emergency regarding fentanyl. They are seeking to address the fentanyl crisis in downtown Portland. 

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HUNGER. REGRET. PAIN. SHAME. REMORSE. Those are the feelings that Cody was always trying to escape. Meth and fentanyl helped for a little while, but the hunger and all the rest of those feelings would always come back. He was homeless for four years, living in his car, scraping by just to eat and get his next fix.