By Amelia NierenbergOriginal Source: bostonglobe.com

CLAREMONT, N.H. — The night after Samantha Vancedarfield moved to town, looking for a clean start, she wandered by an open door on Pleasant Street, the main drag in a small city hit hard by the opioid crisis.

Purple light streamed from inside. The sound of live music spilled into the street.

“What is this place?” Vancedarfield, 20, asked a group milling outside the club, called REMIX.James Skinner, 43, turned toward her. A recovering alcoholic, he volunteers at REMIX and attends a biblical-based recovery group...click here to continue reading