The Lincoln County location of Gateway to Prevention & Recovery is joining with local communities in Oklahoma and around the world on August 31 to remember those who have died or suffered permanent injury due to drug overdose.
Observed on the 31st of August every year, International Overdose Awareness Day seeks to create better understanding of overdose, reduce the stigma of drugrelated deaths, and create change that reduces the harms associated with drug use.
People and communities coming together to remember them, stand together to say that more needs to be done to end overdose in their communities. Overdose can affect anybody and one of the messages of Overdose Awareness Day is that the people who overdose are sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters – they are loved and they are missed.
For more information about IOA Day or for information about opioid prevention and/or addiction treatment, call Gateway at (405) 275-3391.
An International Overdose Awareness Day Event will be held 7 p.m., Monday, Aug. 31, at the Robinson Lawn in Scissortail Park in Oklahoma City. Attendees will work together to create a community mural to remember those lost and spread hope. Resource bags will be distributed to 100 recipients.