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International Overdose Day 2014

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08/31/2014

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2014-08-31 00:00:00 2014-08-31 00:00:00 International Overdose Day 2014 International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) is a global event held on August 31st each year and aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug-related death. Multiple Cities - US, Canada, UK, Australia false MM/DD/YYYY

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International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) 

Australia  United States  | Canada United Kingdom


is a global event held on August 31st each year and aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug-related death. It also acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends remembering those who have met with death or permanent injury as a result of drug overdose

 

Australia  International Overdose Awarenes Events

St Kilda, Victoria
Recognition Lunch at Access Health in St Kilda
Location: Access Health, The Salvation Army Crisis Services, 31 Grey Street, St Kilda, Vic 3182
Type of Event: In recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day, a BBQ lunch will be held at Access Health for NSP and Access Health service users.
When: Monday the 1st September, 2014
Time: 12.30pm to 2pm.
Phone: 9536 7780
Contact: Bec Thatcher [email protected]
Mount Isa, Queensland
International Overdose Awareness Day 2014
Location: Isa House, Suite 6 Mount Isa House, 119 Camooweal Street, Mount Isa, QLD. 4825
Type of Event: Social media and community event campaign to provide awareness of overdose and how it occurs and information of the potential dangers of prescription medications, illicit substances, alcohol including poly drug use.
Time: 10.00am
Phone: 0747449100
Contact: James Cripps [email protected]
Highgate, W.A.
Location: Remembrance Tree Hyde Park, Highgate. Enter at Lake and Glendower St Junction to the right along the path.
Type of Event: Community Event
Information day to raise awareness of overdose risk and response. Remembrance tree for tributes. FREE BBQ.
All users, family, friends and community are welcome to stop by have a chat, get some information, have some food, and take a moment to remember those lost and affected by overdose. Peer Naloxone Project Information.
Collaboration between WA Substance Users Association WASUA and Hepatitis WA and DAO
Time: 1pm-3pm, FRIDAY, 29th August
Phone: 0415 365 964
Contact: Laura Jinx [email protected]
Carnegie, Victoria
Overdose Awareness Day Reflection
Location: Self Help Addiction Resource Centre (SHARC), 140 Grange Rd, Carnegie, 3163
Type of Event: SHARC invites anyone whose lives have been impacted by the loss of a loved one due to substance use to a reflection opportunity on Friday, August 29th, 2014 at SHARC.
A light lunch will be shared.
Time: 11:30am – 1:30pm
Phone: 95731740
Contact: Daina Latta [email protected]

Townsville, Queensland
Townsville World Overdose Day event
Location: Queens Gardens, Gregory St, North Ward, Townsville.
Type of Event: Overdose tributes, health promotion event, and picnic-in-the-park.
Townsville is hosting a memorial ceremony; inviting attendees to share the names of those we have lost. We will also ask those present to share overdose experiences, utilising peer education to avoid future casualties. The Townsville ATODS Needle & Syringe Program Officer will present an educational session on preventing and treating drug overdose.
Please come – all are welcome. If you are able to bring a plate, something to drink, and a candle that would be great. If you cannot bring anything then please just bring yourself. We have more than enough to share.
Time: 11am-1pm, Sunday 31 August 2014
Phone: 0407 019 762
Contact: Patrick McKenzie [email protected]

Darlinghurst
Overdose Awareness Day Morning Tea
Location: Kirketon Road Centre
100 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Type of Event: Commemorative morning tea to remember community members who have experienced overdose and their friends and family
Time: 10:30am
Phone: 02 9360 2766
Contact: Rosie Gilliver [email protected]
Campbelltown
International Overdose Awareness Day Remembrance Service
Location: St Peters Anglican Church
Cordeaux St
Campbelltown NSW 2560
Type of Event: Remembrance Service
Time: 10.30
Phone: 024627-2705
Contact: [email protected]
St Kilda
Tributes & Prevention
Location: St Kilda Needle and Syringe Program
The Salvation Army Crisis Services, 31 Grey Street, St Kilda, Vic, 3182
Type of Event: Throughout the month of August the St Kilda Needle and Syringe Program will have a tributes board offering people who use the service the chance to leave a tribute to friends, family and loved ones they have lost to overdose.
Also throughout the month of August there will be information packs available through the Needle and Syringe Program with information on;
- Getting NALOXONE at Access Health
- Overdose prevention material
- Other drug and alcohol information
Time: Throughout August
Phone: 9536 7780
Hoppers Crossing
International Overdose Awareness Day at ISIS Primary Care
Location: ISIS Primary Care
117-129 Warringa Crescent
Hoppers Crossing, Victoria
Activity rooms 2 & 3
Type of Event: The Addictions program at ISIS Primary Care (Gamblers Help Western and the Voyage AOD program) will be holding an event at our Hoppers Crossing campus to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day. The event will provide an opportunity for affected others and community members to gather in remembrance of loved ones lost through overdose (due to mental health, gambling, drug and alcohol issues).
We will be serving morning tea, have information stands (drugs, mental health, gambling), a remembrance book available for anyone wishing to write a tribute and a mandala for affected others to colour as a meditation.
Time: 10am-12pm, Friday 29 August
Phone: (03) 9296 1255
Contact: Lyn Bowland [email protected]
Wangaratta
Overdose Remembrance Day at Gateway Health
Location: Gateway Health
90-100 Ovens St
Wangaratta Vic 3677
Type of Event: Remembrance
Time: 11:00am
Phone: (03) 5723 2000
Contact: Trent Jones [email protected]
North Ringwood
Third annual Eastern Metropolitan Regional Remembrance Event
Where: Ringwood Lake, Maroondah Highway entry (opposite Larissa Avenue, Melways ref: 49J8)
When: Friday 29th August 2014, 12pm for ceremony, lunch to follow
Type of Event: This is a chance for family and friends to remember those they have lost, and for those in the wider community to come together to commit to raising awareness and reducing stigma about overdose in all its forms.
If you, your service or a client of your service thinks there is a specific way they could be involved in the event (speaking, a reading, an reflective activity etc), please make contact ASAP.
We look forward to sharing with you on the day.
This event is a collaboration between Whitehorse CHS, EACH, EHADS and YSAS
Contact Beth Locke ( 03) 8843 2308 or 0430 524 749 [email protected]

Sydney, NSW
Overdose Tributes on our giant ODAD ribbon

Location: NUAA NSP, Ground Floor
345 Crown Street
Surry Hills, NSW 2010

Type of Event: Throughout the week leading up to Overdose Awareness Day we will be displaying our “Tribbon” (tribute+ribbon) which is a blown up version of the ODA Day badge. Patrons can come and leave tributes on the ribbon to friends, family or colleagues that have suffered an overdose.


Melbourne Writers Festival (21-31 August 2014)
Understanding Addiction
Location: Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne.
Type of Event: Marking International Overdose Awareness Day, the Melbourne Writers Festival is convening a panel with SJ Finn (founder of International Overdose Awareness Day), Christine Nixon (former Police Commissioner of Victoria) and Kate Holden (author) to discuss the complex issue of drug and alcohol use and misuse, and how we need to diminish the guilt and shame associated with these activities if we are to address the serious issue of preventing death from overdose.

Overdose Tributes on our giant ODAD ribbon
Location: NUAA NSP
Ground Floor
345 Crown Street
Surry Hills, NSW 2010
Type of Event: Throughout the week leading up to Overdose Awareness Day we will be displaying our “Tribbon” (tribute+ribbon) which is a blown up version of the ODA Day badge. Patrons can come and leave tributes on the ribbon to friends, family or colleagues that have suffered an overdose.
Time: 11:00am -5:30pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday (25, 27, 28 & 29 August); 2:30-5:30pm Tuesday (26 August)
Phone: (02) 8354 7343

Merri Community Health Services NSP
Overdose Awareness Day
Location: 93 Bell Street, Coburg
Type of Event: Billboard display and information.
Information handed out to those attending NSP at Coburg and Brunswick.
Time: All day
Phone: 0400842069
Contact: Bernadette Mulcahy [email protected]

Better Choices
Location:
Headspace Morwell

99 Buckley Street
Morwell
Type of Event: Community Awareness
Phone: (03) 5136 8300

United States International Overdose Awareness Events

San Francisco, California
San Francisco Overdose Awareness Day Memorial March
Location: San Francisco
Type of Event: March through San Francisco, with a gathering at the end to share stories, remember and celebrate the lives of those who we have lost to overdose.
Time: 2pm
Phone: 510-444-6969 ext 16
Contact: Eliza Wheeler <[email protected]>
Denver, Colorado
Denver Overdose Awareness Day
Location: NW Corner of Colfax and Broadway in downtown Denver, CO.
Type of Event: To raise a ruckus and stop the silence of overdose in our community. We will gather to hold signs and pass out overdose information at this very busy downtown Denver corner.
Time: 2:30-4:00pm
Phone: 303-572-7800
Contact: Lisa Raville <[email protected]>

Newark, Deleware

International Overdose Awareness Day Candle Light Vigil
Location: The corner of Rt. 896 and Main Street in Newark, Delaware near the University of Delaware Campus

Type of Event: Candle Light Vigil honoring those we have lost to the disease of addiction and to educate those who have family members or friends who are currently using regarding our Good Samaritan 911 Law (2013) and our just passed Naloxone Law.
Balloon send-off after vigil.
Time: 8:00 – 11:00 pm
Phone: 302-598-6296
Contact: Liz Perkins [email protected]
Carpentersville, Illinois
Overdose Awareness Day “You are not alone gathering”
Location: Carpenter Park-by the stage
Type of event: We will be gathering together to remember lives lost too soon from overdose, while also providing hope, resource information for grief, treatment and support.
We will offer naloxone training to anyone who wants to be trained and speaking of overdose prevention and the 911 Good Samaritan law.
There will be on display the actual Proclamation from Governor Quinn of Illinois recognizing August 31st as Overdose Awareness Day in Illinois,A Memorial quilt with 100 names of loved ones lost from overdose.We will be launching balloons.
Please bring your lawn chair and join us by the stage.
“You are not alone” Sponsored by: JA2SOON
“Don’t Roll the Dice with Your Life”
Time: 10:30am- 12:30pm
Phone: 847.428.4497
Contact: Terri [email protected]
Peru, Illinois
Overdose Awareness & Memory Walk 2014
Location: Baker Lake
30th Street
Peru Il 61354
Type of Event: A walk in memory of those lost, loved and still struggling with addictive illness.
Speakers, resource table, balloon release to remember our loved ones lost.
Time: 10am-12pm
Phone: 815-993-8314
Contact: Lori Brown [email protected]
Elk Grove, Illinois
“Overdose Ends Now”
Location: Busse Woods South Groves 5-16 Elk Grove Village Il
Type of Event: Evening of Remembrance, hope and action
Special Musical Guest Man the Mighty
Naloxone training
Food Truck
Resource expo
Free To attend
Time: 5:00 to 8:00pm
Contact: <[email protected]>

DeKalb, Illinois
DeKalb County Community Drug Overdose Awareness & Prayer Vigil
Location: DeKalb County Courthouse
133 W State Street
Sycamore, Illinois 60178
Type of Event: Speaker & Prayer Vigil
Time: 7:00pm
Phone: 815-761-1487
Contact: Brenda Jergens [email protected]

 

Shorewood, Illinois
Event Name: Overdose Memorial Vigil
Location: Village of Shorewood Park and Recreation
1 Towne Center Blvd
Shorewood, IL 60404
Date: Sunday August 31st, 2014
Type of Event: Memorial vigil to support those who have lost loved ones to a substance passing and to help bring awareness to our communites. We will have special guest speakers to discuss Overdose Awareness in our counties. We will be selling T-shirts for $20, please send an email if you would like to order for more information. This is a free event open to the public.
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Contact: Elaine Rivas [email protected]

 

Collinsville, Illinois
Collinsville Community Awareness Event, August 28
Location: Navigation Church, 1205 Vandalia, Collinsville, Illinois 62234
Type of Event: The Collinsville Police Department is pleased to announce a community awareness event featuring presentations by Bethany Place. The primary purpose is to provide training to members of our community which will allow them to access the potentially lifesaving drug Narcan through Bethany Place. This public meeting is also an opportunity for members of our community to receive updated local statistics of heroin use, treatment opportunities, and local HIV/AIDS statistics/prevention measures. Family members, friends, business owners, neighbors and anyone who is concerned for the life of an injection drug user is welcome to attend and take advantage of the training.
Time: 7:00 p.m. August 28
Phone: 618 345 4249
Contact: Tim Stark [email protected]
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indiana Overdose Awareness Day
Location: Juan Solomon Park
6100 Grandview Drive
Indianapolis, IN
In Shelter
Type of Event: Picnic at 6:00 p.m.
Awareness Discussion with speakers immediately followed by remembrance and candle light vigil.
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Phone: 317-828-6883
Contact: Justin Phillips <[email protected]>

Indianapolis, Indiana

Overdose Awareness Day
Location: To Be Determined in Indianapolis, IN
Type of Event: Candlelight Vigil and remembrance
Time:TBA
Phone: 317-828-6883

Davenport, Iowa
First Annual Quad Cities Overdose Awareness Walk
Location: LaFayette Park
700 W 4th St, Davenport, IA
Type of Event: Bring your family and friends and walk with us from LaFayette Park, Davenport, IA to Schwiebert Park, Rock Island, IL to bring awareness to the national epidemic of drug overdoses in the Quad Cities, throughout Iowa and Illinois, and the rest of the country.
LaFayette Park, Davenport, IA
Expert speakers, balloon release, Memorial Wall (bring a photo of your loved one to pin on the wall) and supporter networking.
Website: http://odawalk.com
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1483065088579745/
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Time: 10am
Phone: 202-560-6551
Contact: Rene Dickerson <[email protected]>

Lexington, Kentucky
The Fayette County Heroin Task Force Overdose Day Memorial Event
Location: Jacobson Park, Lexington
Type of Event: To honor those we have lost and provide solidarity for families, friends, and colleagues of those we have lost. This event will begin at 2 pm with a brief presentation and a ceremonial planting of a tree in honor of lives lost to heroin. Afterwards, free kites will be given out to all those in attendance for kite flying and recreation. The flying of the kites is a symbolic gesture of us finding a way to help others rise above and fly over their addictions.
Please invite as many people as you can. This is a family-friendly invite and guests of all ages are welcome. Even if you have not been affected directly or indirectly by heroin, please come and show your support for those who have. This is about hope
Time: 2pm-3:30pm, August 23
Contact: Sharon Tankersley at 859-225-3296 ext. 658 or [email protected]

Portland, Maine
I AM HERE Outreach Team Presents the First Annual Overdose Awareness Day Rally and Vigil
Location: Monument Square
Congress Street
Portland, Maine.
Type of Event: A community of active users and their allies coming together to give recognition to those who have died from an opiate overdose. There will also be educational outreach with specific emphasis on Narcan availability in Maine. We will walk through downtown Portland, raising awareness to this important issue and end with a memorial and time of silence.
Time: 2-4pm
Phone: (207) 756-8024
Contact: Zoe Odlin-Platz [email protected]
Waterville, Maine
First Annual Overdose Awareness Day
Location: Railroad Square Cinema
17 Railroad Square
Waterville, Maine 04901
Type of Event: Screening of 23 minutes documentary “The Opiate Effect” followed by discussion with Henry “Skip” Gates. We will also be creating a mobile memorial with make-your-own magnets to honor loved ones lost to overdose.
Time: 10am – 12 noon
Phone: 1-207-626-1279
Contact: Kelsey Cler [email protected]
Clementon, New Jersey
Clementon Awareness Day
Location: Heroes Park
Garfield Ave.
Clementon, NJ 08021
Type of Event: Ceremonial and educational , speaking and songs
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Phone: 609-605-4608
Contact: Jonathan Fisher [email protected]
Bronx, New York
St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction International Overdose Prevention Awareness Day
Location: St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, 886 Westchester Avenue GFL, Bronx, New York 10459
Type of Event: A Day of Prevention & Remembrance
Time: All Day: 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Overdose Prevention and Response Training – Breakfast; 11:00 AM to 12::00 Overdose Awareness Art Competition; 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Candle Light Vigil – Honor our Ancestors; 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM – Honor our Heroes and Sheroes
Phone: 718-585-5544
[email protected]
South Bronx, New York
Event Name: BOOM!Health Training the Community
Location: Look for the BOOM!Health which will be located at East 150th Street and Morris Avenue on International Overdose Awareness Day.
Type of Event: We will train community members on Opioid Overdose Reversals right in their community. Our team of overdose trainers will provide training to residents in the community that want to become part of growing number of trained responders in The South Bronx.
Time: 11:00am and 12:30pm
Phone: 917 232 8582
Contact: Ed Manchess [email protected]
New York, New York
Event Name: NYC Overdose Awareness Day
Location: NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, 42-09 28th Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 Room 3-52
Type of Event: The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is hosting the 1st Annual NYC Overdose Awareness Day on September 9th, 2014 in commemoration of International Overdose Awareness Day.
The event will include an overdose prevention training in which attendees can receive naloxone—a medication that reverses the effects of overdose and can save someone’s life. The event will also include a panel of individuals whose lives have been touched by opioid overdose and a presentation on the work that the NYC DOHMH is currently doing to challenge the opioid crisis in New York City.
In addition, Opioid Overdose Prevention Programs will host a “Day of Training” at sites throughout New York City on Tuesday, September 9th.
Time: 1– 5pm
Phone: 347-396-7909
Contact: Amu Ptah Riojas [email protected]

Port Jefferson, New York
Location: Memorial Park at Port Jefferson Harbor,
Port Jefferson, NY 11777
Type of Event: A day to remember those we have lost to drug overdose, those who struggle, those who are in recovery, educate and erase the stigma of who an addict is. Guest speakers, a candle lighting, live acoustic music and a whole lot of unity to spread the message about addiction on Long Island!
Together we can be the change we wish to see for our children and loved ones
Time: 4pm
Phone: 631-946-0807

Las Vegas, Nevada
Event Name: Prevention, Treatment and Recovery
Location: East Las Vegas Community Center
250 N. Eastern Ave.
Las Vegas, NV
Type of Event: Panel of speakers and resource fair
Time: 10am-2pm.
Phone: 702-743-7384
Contact: Dell Schilleci [email protected]

Greensboro, North Carolina
Overdose Awareness Candlelight Vigil
Location: 401 Ashland Dr, Greensboro, NC 27403
Type of Event: We will have a Story Board where people can post pictures, graffiti, write, draw, and create anything they would like to remember lost loved ones. We will have music, light refreshments, naloxone, Harm reduction information, supplies and most important love and acceptance.
We will light candles and take a moment in one of Greensboro’s most beautiful parks to never forget the untimely and unnecessary deaths of our loved ones. Come out and help spread the word that overdose is 100% preventable. Make sure if you know someone that uses opiates You have Naloxone.
Time: 6:30pm until dark, August 31
Phone: 336-669-5543
Contact: Louise Vincent [email protected]
Gloucester, Massachusetts
4th Annual Gloucester Overdose Vigil
Location: The Flag Pole at the Cut Bridge, Stacy Boulevard, Gloucester Ma.
Type of Event: Join us for a night of healing to remember those we have lost to overdose and help shed light on this ongoing tragedy. Program includes luminaries, speakers, reading of the names, music, lighting of candles, moment of silence and memorial table. All are welcome.
Date and Time: Thurs. September 4th 7-9pm. Rain date Sept. 12th
Phone: 781-258-8948
Contact: Kathy Day [email protected]

Portland, Oregon
Portland IODA Day Memorial
Location: The memorial tree at Outside In
1132 SW 13th Ave
Portland, OR 97205
Type of Event: Please join us in remembering those who we have lost to overdose and to commit ourselves to preventing overdose death. We will have candles, but please feel free to bring memorial items like pictures of loved ones or flowers.
September 3
Time: 6pm
Phone: 503-535-3826
Contact: Haven Wheelock [email protected]

 

Kingston, Pennsylvania
International Overdose Awareness Day
Location: Kirby Park (Pavilion 1)
Type of Event: A day of remembrance with speakers, music, information tables, and balloon release
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Phone: 570 991 7199
Contact: Carol Coolbaugh/ N.E.P.A. chapter of GRASP [email protected]

Flower Mound, Texas
Overdose Day Event: “Not Me”
Location: Flower Mound High School Auditorium
3411 Peters Colony Road, Flower Mound, TX
Type of Event: WTF is hosting a Premier Showing of their new short documentary “NOT ME”, bringing awareness to drugs in our communities
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Phone: 972-467-7704
Contact: Kathy B. O’Keefe [email protected]

Austin, Texas
Texas Overdose Awareness Day vigil
Location: Texas State Capital South Steps Austin Texas 78758
Type of Event: Information dissemination both verbal and written, readings of names and moment of silence for loved ones who have passed. Music
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Contact: Mark Kinzly [email protected]
Lubbock, Texas
Overdose Prevention Awareness Event
Location: Miller Park, Lubbock, Texas
Type of Event: Open to the public-Family event
Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm
Phone: 806-241-2902
Contact: Teresa Alvarado [email protected]

Vancouver, Washington
Overdose Prevention Project
Type of Event: Overdose Prevention Education and Naloxone Distribution.
Location: Harm Reduction Center, 3701 E. 4th Plain, Vancouver, Wa 98661
Date and Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 3-6 PM, Fridays 3-5 PM
Phone: (360)397-8086
Contact: Sandi Kendrick [email protected]


 

Canada International Overdose Awareness Day Events

Edmonton, Alberta
International Overdose Awareness Day in Edmonton
Location: Centennial Plaza (behind the public library)
99 Street and 101a Avenue
Edmonton, AB Canada
Type of Event: Streetworks, Edmonton’s needle exchange program, will be hosting the event. There will be information booths, light refreshments, raffles and shirts/hoodie sales, overdose prevention training, and a memorial wall.
There will be a short candlelight service at noon to honor those who we have lost to drug overdose.
Time: Friday August 29, 2014 from 10am-2pm.
Phone: 780-423-3122 Ext.210/211
Contact: Mathew Wong [email protected]

Montreal, Quebec
International Overdose Awareness Day Commemoration
Location: Parc Émilie Gamelin, métro Berri-UQAM, sortie Ste-Catherine
Type of Event: Remember our sisters, brothers, children and peers.
Bring your messages, pictures, poems.
Because we don’t want these people to be forgotten, for their loved ones to cope with their loss with respect.
Time: 3.30 pm, Friday 29 August
Phone: 514-904-1241
Contact: Sylvain Côté or Érik Plourde [email protected]

Ottawa, Ontario
International Overdose Awareness Day
Location: Human Rights Memorial, Elgin Street
Type of Event: International Overdose Awareness Day aims to raise awareness of drug overdose and eradicate the stigma attached to drug use. Overdoses are preventable! Please join us on August 29th, at 11am at the Human Rights Monument on Elgin Street, to commemorate those who have been affected by overdose. This year’s event will explore the stigma faced by the drug using community and their families. We will have guest speakers who will talk about the successes of naloxone, guest speakers discussing lived experience. We are happy to announce that this year we will also have information tables present about our event and the ways to help reduce the risks of overdose.
Please be advised that the media will be present at this event.
Date and Time: 11am August 29th, 2014.
Phone: 1-613-325-4227
Contact Stefan Amyotte: [email protected]

 

 

United Kingdom  International Overdose Awarenes Events

 
London, UK
International Overdose Awareness Day at Lorraine Hewitt House
Location: Lorraine Hewitt House, 12/14 Brighton House, Brixtonia, SW9 8DG, London, UK.
Type of Event: Sadly we won’t be able to run the event on the 31st of August but as on previous years we will be running an info stall downstairs in the reception of Lorraine Hewitt House in Brixton, Lambeth with lots of harm reduction advice on safer using of drugs. Although we will have info on lots of different types of overdose we will focus mostly on opiate overdose and take-home naloxone. With the harm reduction information we will also have lots of lovely unhealthy and fattening foodstuffs like cake, crisps & chocolate. After some complaints last year at the lack of healthy food this year we will be buying an apple for the health nut who uses our service.
In the afternoon we will be running some overdose awareness and take-home naloxone training for a maximum of 12 Lambeth drug and alcohol consortium clients. The training lasts 1hr 15mins and all attendees receive a take-home naloxone kit and £10 cash for their time.The information stall and training are run and delivered by Brixton residents who use drugs. For us the day is all about having a laugh, making some new friends, sharing info and experience and stopping needless overdoses of our peers in our lovely south London Borough of Lambeth on Friday the 29th of August.
Stop the war on people who use drugs.
Time: 9.30am-4pm
Phone: 0207 737 0099
Contact: Martin McCusker [email protected]
Dundee, Scotland
Scottish Drugs Form: ‘One is Too Many’ Tackling preventable deaths among people who use drugs (29th August)
Location: Apex Hotel, 1 West Victoria Dock Rd, Dundee, DD1 3JP, Scotland
Type of Event: Scottish Drugs Forum are hosting a national conference to look at the current situation with drug-related deaths in Scotland, what actions are taking place to try to reduce the numbers of people who die every year and what could be done differently. Drug-related deaths in Scotland continue to be among the highest in Europe and in 2012, 581 people lost their lives. The tragedy is that the majority of these deaths were preventable.
The conference will draw on a range of experience both internationally and nationally to address the causes of death among people who use drugs and allow opportunities for networking, sharing good practice and planning for the future.
The cost for this event is £60.
Date: 29th August
Time: 09:30 – 16:00
Phone: 0141 221 1175
Contact: Kirsten Horsburgh [email protected]

Paisley, Scotland
Renfrewshire Drug Service Open Day
Location: 20 Back Sneddon St, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland PA3 2DJ
Type of Event: Open day including Naloxone training, health promotion and overdose awareness
Date and Time: Friday 29 August 2014, 10-3pm
Phone: 0141 618 4788
Contact: John Coulter Harm Reduction Nurse [email protected]


 


 

 


 


 


 

 

 



 

 

 

 


 

 



 


 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 


 


 



 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 


 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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