Overdose Awareness Day has a number of aims:
It hopes to lay bare the stigma associated with drug use.
To include overdoses that are heroin related, but also overdoses from alcohol, pills and other drugs. The inclusion of all drugs is important and more reflective of the reality of overdose, allowing us to speak more broadly about the issues.
- To provide an opportunity for people to publicly mourn for loved ones, some for the first time, without feeling guilt or shame.
- To include the greatest number of people in Overdose Awareness Day events, and as such, encourages non-denominational involvement.
- To give community members information about the issue of overdose.
- To send a strong message to current and former drug users that they are valued.
- To stimulate discussion about overdose prevention and drug policy.
- To provide basic information on the range of support services that exist in the local community.
- To remind the drug user to be careful.
Remember -
It could be your father, your daughter or your loved one...
It could be you...
or me.
or me.
In memory of Bauwka
Not the first nor the last but one of the youngest...
RIP
Thanks for the heads-up.
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ReplyDeleteYr welcome (and just commented re; yr Vara connection comment which I hadn't seen til just then...)
Hope yr well...bugger that we seem to have complete opposite awake times. Feel bad that I haven't chatted more :(
Will do an all nighter soon so we can chat but at the moment I am going to have to crash soon as Spaceboy is over and he wakes up damn early!
Take care/