MANCHESTER, United States: Tucked away in the corner of a US fire station are two plastic chairs, a tiny poster saying “anyone, anytime, can recover,” and a poem in memory of a 20-year-old woman who fatally overdosed in 2016.

The space is little more than a cubbyhole, but has become a safe harbor for drug addicts in New Hampshire and symbol of hope in the US fight against the opioid crisis, a group of drugs, which like morphine, dulls pain and induces euphoria.

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