is played by Hollywood star Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison is perfect as the formidable sea captain whose ghost scares off all occupants of the cottage his former living self once inhabited. Mrs Muir – a widow who longs to live by the sea – defies him and after a while the ghostly sea captain begins to fall for his mortal tenant. Money problems beset Mrs Muir but the captain decides to dictate his memoirs to her in the hope that when published, his tales of seafaring will make enough money for her to buy the house. This she does but also meets a suave writer played by that elegant actor, George Sanders. Mrs Muir falls for him much to the chagrin of the captain. Didn’t he –Philadelphia, he said, as a teen Cruz fell into step with his peers, buying and using drugs and leading to his eventual dependence on heroin. But thanks to several months of treatment and living in a Kensington recovery house, Cruz testified to Wednesday’s packed room, he was able to put his opioid use behind him and become a certified peer specialist with Community Behavioral Health.

But hardly everyone in Kensington — or throughout the city — is as lucky, Philly Health Commissioner Tom Farley reminded the audience.

An estimated 1,200 people died of drug overdoses in 2017, he noted, with the numbers threatening to spike even higher this year. “To put that in perspective, at the worst year of the AIDS epidemic, 1994, we had 935 people who died from