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RECOVERY HAPPENS WITH YOUR HELP

We are delighted to share our new video about Framingham FORCE – who we are and how you can help.

A conversation between Cathy Miles, our board chair, and MK Feeney, board member.

AFTV Specials – Framingham FORCE Flags

We are a group of local Framingham advocates and community members focused on increasing awareness, prevention and compassion surrounding the opioid epidemic. Join FORCES to recognize that people can and do recover from substance use disorder.

Our Mission

To be a FORCE in the Framingham Community to combat our opioid epidemic through compassion, education, and advocacy.

Our Vision

A community free of stigma and opioid use disorder, where all those who need help will seek and receive compassionate care.

Are you a Person in Recovery who is struggling?

Framingham FORCE can help!

We have limited funding for emergency financial assistance to people in recovery. We can also connect you to resources to help with shopping, food, mental health challenges, Medicine for Addiction Treatment, and other basic needs.

Be Informed

Addiction is a medical disorder affecting the brain and changing behavior. Science is revealing how addiction affects the brain and top experts are gathering evidence about how we should address our drug problem, from embracing evidence-based treatments, to rethinking public policies.

Join FORCES to recognize that people can and do recover from Substance Use Disorder.

Get Involved

We are a group of local Framingham advocates and community members focused on increasing awareness, prevention and compassion surrounding the opioid epidemic.

Framingham FORCE brings together local parents, educators, and professionals who care about increasing awareness, prevention and compassion surrounding the opioid epidemic

See what we’ve been up to…

FRAMINGHAM FORCE runs for RECOVERY
Support our runners who are committed to spreading the word about SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER. We can open our wallets while they do the WORK!
‘Treat it like what it is.’ Promoting solutions to the opioid epidemic in Milford, Framingham | The Milford Daily News
MILFORD — David Swindell often drives past the downtown recovery center named in his son’s honor — sometimes because it’s on his way, and sometimes just to see it.
International Overdose Awareness Day 2021
Please join Framingham FORCE (Fostering Opioid Recovery, Compassion, and Education) as we gather on Framingham Common Centre green by the purple flags to remember those who have passed due to overdose.
Framingham FORCE To Place Purple Flags on Centre Common In Memory of Lives Lost in Opioid Epidemic | Framingham Source
FRAMINGHAM – Framingham FORCE will remember the more than 2,000 lives lost in 2020 due to the opioid epidemic by placing purple flags on the Framingham Centre Common.
COVID-19 Assistance
Are you a Person in Recovery that is struggling amidst the Covid–19 Pandemic? Framingham FORCE can help! To get help, please complete the application and one of our volunteers will call you to follow up.
Words matter.

What we say and how we say it makes a…

Supporting Recovery
Framingham FORCE supports Recovery - Gratitude from our friends in Recovery
Framingham Community Vigil

We gathered at Scott Hall to remember those who lost…

Senior Health and Wellness Fair

Framingham FORCE at the Senate President’s Health and Wellness Fair…

Framingham FORCE holds a Celebrate Recovery event | Metrowest Daily News, September 22, 2019
FRAMINGHAM, MA — Framingham FORCE is celebrating recovery this month with an event dedicated to substance use recovery.
Celebrate Recovery with Framingham Force

Every September, The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration…

Hidden in Plain Sight

Just wrapped up a successful launch event of Hidden in…

Recovery and Substance Use Disorder Booklist

FORCE collaborated with the Framingham Public Library on a Recovery…

NOVA Addiction Movie

Screening of the film Addiction, a documentary from its nationally…

MetroFest 2019

Framingham FORCE at Metrofest, Saturday, June 15, 2019 Stop by…

Cathy Miles, Framingham FORCE Founder, Was Recognized At This Year's Salute To Framingham. (Samantha Mercado/ Patch Staff)
Framingham FORCE Is Officially A Nonprofit | Framingham PATCH, May 30, 2019
FRAMINGHAM, MA — A local organization, Framingham FORCE (Fostering Opioid Recovery, Compassion and Education), has officially been named a nonprofit. Framingham FORCE is a group of local Framingham advocates and community members focused on increasing awareness, education and compassion surrounding the opioid epidemic.
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