GRAYSON, Ky. (WSAZ) -- A crowd of dozens protested against heroin after a string of overdoses in Grayson.

Members of the REwired recovery group organized the event after they say five people overdosed in the past couple days. Two of those people died.

"We're taking a stand against heroin," Franci Middleton said. "We're not going to sit around and do nothing."

Wednesday evening, they stood along Carol Malone Boulevard in Grayson outside the Family Dollar holding anti-heroin signs and chanting "Heroin go."

Garrett Ratcliff was one of the people who died.

"It's been a scare that it would happen," Ratcliff's sister Malyssa Maslana said. "I just never really thought it would, but it did."

She says her mother got home from work Tuesday, and his door wouldn't open.

"We busted a window actually and found him," Maslana said.

Franci Middleton is a recovering addict herself and knows the people who overdosed.

"They are good friends of mine," she said. "I literally cry for days, and it grieves my spirit so much."

Maslana says she desperately hopes other families won't have to experience the same kind of loss her family is going through.

"The person has to want it themselves," she said. "It's nice to have all this help too because it gives a positive impact. The community is one big heart coming together, and hopefully there'll be a stop to heroin and all other drugs."

The REwired group says their goal is to have a recovery house established in Grayson.

They're also planning a candlelight vigil at 6 p.m. Friday in the Family Dollar parking lot.