Overdose Awareness Exhibition - Opening Event
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Aug 31, 2023 4pm - 6pm
Location
Summit Artspace
140 E Market St
Details
In honor of Overdose Awareness Day, visual artists in Summit County and contiguous counties created artworks about their personal experience with addiction and overdose – in honor of a loved one who passed from an overdose, or as an ally for those who have struggled through these experiences. International Overdose Awareness Day is the world’s largest annual campaign to:
- end overdose
- remember without stigma those who have died
- acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind
The campaign raises awareness of overdose, which is one of the world’s worst public health crises, and stimulates action and discussion about evidence-based overdose prevention and drug policy. The campaign also acknowledges the profound grief felt by families and friends whose loved ones have died or suffered permanent injury from a drug overdose. International Overdose Awareness Day spreads the message about the tragedy of drug overdose death and that drug overdose is preventable.
