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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - In an effort to bring consciousness done the community, a section Fresno instauration is holding a remembrance ceremonial for loved ones who died of an overdose.
Aug. 31 marks International Overdose Awareness Day, a worldwide effort to beryllium much informed, trim drug-related decease stigmas, retrieve those mislaid to overdose, and supply enactment for those near behind.
Officials accidental since the instauration of fentanyl into the thoroughfare proviso of drugs successful Fresno, determination has been an summation successful visits to infirmary exigency rooms and deaths.
“Every day, we spot lives astir america being changed and mislaid to overdose. Overdose does not discriminate– it could beryllium you oregon idiosyncratic you love, a friend, colleague, oregon your neighbor,” said Lynn Horton, co-founder of the Zachary Horton Foundation.
The Zachary Horton Foundation and Hinds Hospice Center for Grief and Healing volition beryllium hosting a gathering and remembrance ceremonial connected Saturday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. astatine the California Health Sciences University successful Clovis.
There, Hinds Hospice volition present a programme called "HALO", oregon Healing After Loss by Overdose. Officials adhd further resources volition beryllium disposable including escaped Narcan and fentanyl investigating strips.
"It is important to grant the radical whose lives person been altered by overdose. People mislaid owed to overdose are not conscionable statistic – they are radical who are loved," said Kathy Cromwell, enforcement manager of Hinds Hospice Center for Grief & Healing.
The HALO programme volition connection a enactment radical to parents who person mislaid a kid to overdose successful summation to a radical for anyone impacted by overdose.
