Some celebrated their sober life, while others remembered those who died from an overdose. They all hope to break the stigma of addiction. August 31 is International Overdose Day.
They joined on a sunny afternoon in Washington Park, Over-the-Rhine, to remember lives lost to heroin, fentanyl, prescription painkillers. To end the stigma that puts those with addiction in hiding, and makes treatment elusive. On International Overdose Awareness Day, mothers, fathers, friends and others, public officials and police recognized the disease of addiction here at a first-time event in our city. ‘We need to remember those lives lost to substance use disorder,” said Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus.
International Overdose day is every year on Aug. 31.