Today's tribute aims to increase awareness and reduce stigma of overdose, and to acknowledge the grief felt by those that have lost loved ones.
WOODSTOCK- International Overdose Awareness Day is here. A commemorative tribute will be held in Museum Square.
This year's theme is, "Time to Remember, Time to Act." The Harm Reduction Working Group of Oxford County Mental Health and Addictions Action Coalition is hosting the event today from 12 to 3 p.m.
The tribute aims to increase awareness and reduce stigma of overdose, and to acknowledge the grief felt by those that have lost loved ones. The chair of the group Lisa Gillespie, is inviting anyone to bring momentos, photos, and stories of loved ones to be displayed at the event.
Gillespie also says, that since the pandemic the number of drug related deaths has more than doubled in Oxford.
"We want people to know that every life is valuable, every life is worth saving, every death from an opioid overdose is one death too many, and that these deaths can be prevented."

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