By Brian MacQuarrie
Residents are conducting drug deals inside the New England Center and Home for Veterans despite the Boston shelter’s stated zero tolerance for drug possession, according to nearly a dozen residents and former employees.
Several of them estimated that at least 20 percent of the roughly 300 people who stay at the downtown center, where many homeless veterans seek help for addiction, are looking to buy or sell drugs. The allegations come two months after reports that three of its residents had died of apparent opioid overdoses.
“I’ve bought drugs from people there, so I’m not an innocent party,” said one heroin addict who has lived at the 
center and did not want to be named for fear of retribution. “But there are deals being made all the time. You try to do what you can and not get caught.”
Center president C. Andrew McCawley, in a written statement to the Globe, strongly defended efforts to keep drugs out of the facility.
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