The photographs in this series were taken between 2017 and 2023 in Massachusetts, one of the American states worst hit by the drug overdose crisis. A 2018 survey found that one in four Massachusetts residents knew someone who’d died by overdose, a proportion that has surely grown as each successive year has marked a new grim record. As an ethnographer studying the crisis, I’ve attended community events, forums, support groups, vigils, and rallies, and I’ve formally interviewed 80 people—many of whom lost friends and family to overdose. For them, grief was characterized by social and political action. Their acts of grieving rendered those lost to drug overdose grievable.