Amid drug crisis, spiritual first responders hit the streets

By ​Michael Hill, Michael Dwyer, Steve Helber and Seth Wenig

Michael Hill, multi-format reporter, Albany, New York, and photographers Michael Dwyer, Boston; Steve Helber, Richmond, Virginia; and Seth Wenig, New York, for an all-formats effort to tell a little-noticed story of the opioid crisis – how clergy members have become first responders, of sorts, leaving their pulpits to go directly to the streets to help get people into treatment and on a path to recovery.