International Overdose Awareness Day 2015

International Overdose Awareness Day is held on August 31st each year to raise overdose awareness and stop the stigma of a drug-related death. It also acknowledges the grief and sadness felt by families and friends remembering those who died or left with a permanent injury as a result of drug overdose.At our event it’s not only a night of remembrance, but a night of HOPE for families who suffer with a loved one’s addiction.

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This entry was published on August 19, 2016 and was updated on December 8, 2016 / Jodi Barber. Posted in Local Awareness Events. Bookmark the permalink.

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Jodi Barber

My life changed in 2010. I lost my first born son, Jarrod at the young age of 19. He overdosed on a cocktail of RX drugs prescribed by the doctor I took him to for help off his addiction to weed and and opiate called, " Opana" which a dirty doctor in Rowland Heights was OVERprescribing to his friends and possibly Jarrod himself. My other son was 15 at the time. He lost his best friend and only sibling. We also lost 3 of his close friends in that same year and many more!! I soon became an advocate because these deaths are preventable!!