Play spurs addiction outreach

COMMUNAL HEALING: After ­losing friends to drug overdoses, Ana Bess Moyer Bell, foreground, wrote a play designed to promote healing and perpetuate social change, which has morphed into Coaast, a community-first, arts-based nonprofit. / COURTESY STEFY HILMER
COMMUNAL HEALING: After ­losing friends to drug overdoses, Ana Bess Moyer Bell, foreground, wrote a play designed to promote healing and perpetuate social change, which has morphed into Coaast, a community-first, arts-based nonprofit. / COURTESY STEFY HILMER

After losing a handful of friends to drug overdoses as part of the opioid epidemic that’s spread across New England, Ana Bess Moyer Bell of North Kingstown decided to write a play designed to promote healing and perpetuate social change. The play has since morphed into a multifaceted community-first, arts-based nonprofit called Coaast (Creating Outreach

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