To register an International Overdose Awareness Day activity, please fill in the form on this page:
- Online/Digital
Arlington
Virginia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: Online
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Arlington County CSB
Contact: Emily Siqveland
Phone: 703-228-4216
Email: esiqveland@arlingtonva.us
Hear stories of recovery, have opportunities to ask questions, learn about how overdoses have impacted our community and how we are addressing it, and learn how to obtain resources such as NARCAN & Medication deactivation pouches
Ashland City
Tennessee
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: Please register for this free event at :https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-narcan-training-event-registration-107593946390?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Cheatham County Community Enhancement Coalition
Contact: Candis Batey
Phone: 6152468075
Email: cbatey@cheathamcoalition.org
Please join us for a free Online Narcan Training. The training last approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes for questions.
If you are a resident of Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner, or Stewart County you will be certified and receive a free Narcan kit.
The only side effect of Narcan is LIFE!
Some Topics We Will Go Over Include:
• What are opioids, the opioid epidemic, and how it is impacting TN and your community
• Harm Reduction
• Reducing Stigma
• The Addicted Brain and Trauma
• Risk factors of an opioid overdose
• Recognizing an opioid overdose
• Naloxone: how and when to use it
• Compassion fatigue, burn out and self-care
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Ballarat
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location: Online event
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Ballarat Community Health
Contact: Kate Davenport
Phone:
Email: kateda@bchc.org.au
Unfortunately due to COVID-19 restrictions, Ballarat Community Health will be unable to host a public event this year. Instead we have created a virtual candlelight remembrance video sharing messages from loved ones who have been affected by overdose.
In the weeks leading up to Overdose Day we will be sharing information on our Facebook page about overdose and naloxone.
Baltimore
Maryland
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland Facebook page: www.facebook.com/thellf
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland
Contact: Allison Coleman
Phone: 4102427000
Email: communications@thellf.org
Join us on International Overdose Awareness Day as we raise the Donate Life flag in honor of the many generous organ, eye, tissue, and in-spirit donors who have died of an overdose.
Brantford
Ontario
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Brantford, Brant County, Haldimand, and Norfolk
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: IOAD Planning Committee Brantford, Haldimand, Norfolk
Contact: Allie Torrance
Phone: 905 520 8083
Email: hrbrant@aidsnetwork.ca
Moving to a community engagement and online format, the IOAD planning committee has been working to develop an online campaign with a week of social media engagement activities, resources, personal stories, videos, and calls to action. During the week leading up to August 31st, we are asking community members, local businesses, and community organizations to show their solidarity with people who use drugs by hosting a banner or poster within their spaces and in their windows containing important messaging and demands to end the overdose crisis and to improve the lives of people who use drugs in our communities. All of the work throughout this week will be shared and posted across social media platforms. We will be holding a online debrief space after August 31st to hold space for people who have been impacted by overdose, as a space of solidarity, of anger, of healing, of tribute and of love.
Brighton
East Sussex
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:13 pm
Location: https://www.facebook.com/ODALiveUK/
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: small performance adventures
Contact: Kate McCoy
Phone: 07786068462
Email: projects@smallperformanceadventures.com
small performance adventures is working with a range of recovery arts organisations across the UK to create a series of performances that due to the Covid-19 pandemic will not be performed live, but be simultaneously shared online on August 31st 2020 at 13.13pm (BST) (UTC+1) https://www.facebook.com/ODALiveUK/
These video performances created by artists and participants in recovery are ritual acts of remembrance and respect which also aim to raise awareness and reduce stigma.
The organisations participating are: We are Not Saints, Edit Sweet, Bristol Drugs Project, Outside Edge Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth.
CA
CA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location: Online
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Renee
Phone: 7607735870
Email: Renee.Baribeau@renewalhg.com
Overdose Awareness Day Narcan Training
Narcan saves Lives. Kits given to friends and family can reverse opioid overdoses and give people a chance to recover. Narcan is effective and simple to use.
Join Train the Trainer, Renee Baribeau for this online event. Certificates of Attendance will be provided. We will be giving away Narcan Kits during the presentation.
Please share with your friends.
Hash Tags #Endoverdose #IOAD2020
Chicago
IL
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:30 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Bella Crum
Phone:
Email: bella@live4lali.org
Live4Lali is proud to be able to hold a Day of Remembrance on International Overdose Awareness Day, August 31st. Join us on Facebook Live at 5:30pm for a panel discussion lead by people with lived experience and field professionals, followed by training on how to reverse an overdose with Naloxone. Finally, light a candle, and take part in a vigil to remember those we have lost to an overdose.
Derry
New Hampshire
Date: 15/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: The event is a live broadcast stream taking place on facebook @10KCandlesforNHhttps://www.facebook.com/10KCandlesForNH/
It will be broadcasted live from the Events United studio space at 11 A Street, Derry, NH 03038
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: RecoverYdia
Contact: Matthew Conway
Phone: 603-505-5320
Email: info@recoverydia.com
We’re excited to officially announce the Free 2020 “Livestream” 10,000 Candles! We look forward to having you join us for an evening of hope, connection and remembrance.
About The Event 2020
The annual concert-vigil is called 10,000 Candles, its purpose is to create a space for grieving and raise awareness around deaths of despair (suicide and addiction). It is currently being live-streamed. It combines performing artists with speakers from the mental health and substance use recovery communities sharing their lived experience, hope, support and connection. Live Stream on Thursday August 29th, 2020 7pm to 10pm. Be with the community for the Livestream and candlelight vigil with Angels of Addictions.
RecoverYdia is a for-purpose organization focused on creating meaningful human connection through digital media and events. Our purpose is to produce messaging and organize events that inspire individuals to connect and interact with their communities in a meaningful way.
Speaker lineup 2020
– Piers Kaniuka, Resistance recovery (Via pre recorded video)
– Cheryl Pacapelli, Harbor Care (Via pre recorded video)
– Cynthia Witiker, Interim CEO, GNMHC
– Robbie Spencer, In Our Own Voice Speaker, NAMI NH
– Tim King, Activist and Author, Addiction Nation
– Ann Marie Zanfagna, Founder and Artist, Angels of Addictions
– Jess Parnell, Natacha Davis, Revive Recovery
Plus four performing artists
– Decatur Creek – Acoustic Trio
– Ethyric & B. Snair – Positive Hip Hop
– Matt Roy – Certified Music Therapist and Hip Hop artist
– The Silent Band – 6 Piece Professional Performance
Detroit
MI
Date: 19/08/2020
Time: 12:00 am
Location: 3968 MT ELLIOTT ST
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Unified HIV Health and Beyond
Contact: Ashley Shukait
Phone: 7344932539
Email: info@miunified.org
As virtual is our new reality, we honor and remember loved ones lost to and saved from overdose through this virtual memorial.
We invite you to celebrate the memory of loved ones and those who have survived from illicit drug poisonings. We cherish and value lives lost and support people’s journey of life with compassion and respect.
Please submit a tribute (instructions below) and we will post to the Unified HIV Health and Beyond Page throughout the day on August 31st.
We will also have some great information pieces and resources for families, people who actively use and those defining their own path of recovery, however they define it throughout the day!
Please submit photos, videos and/or written pieces to info@miunified.org by August 25th at 9PM EST to participate.
‼️ Submission guidelines‼️
Photos: maximum 3 photos
Videos: maximum length: 3 minutes; one video per submission
Written pieces: maximum 150 words
If you want it posted anonymously, state that in the email heading.
Detroit
Mi
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Instagram, Facebook, twitter
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: The Coalition for Urban Youth and Family Development
Contact: Marsialle Arbuckle
Phone: 7343770087
Email: Cuyfd@cuyfdcoalition.org
We will use the hashtag #purplepartners on our social media platforms to encourage our followers to wear purple in solidarity with national overdose awareness day
Edmonton
Alberta
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Online activities, purple ribbon campaign, via digital billboard campaign and at Victoria Park Site 6 for an informal gathering and candlelight vigil. Bring masks
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Healing Hearts with Moms Stop The Harm
Contact: Angela
Phone:
Email: HealingHeartsEdmonton@gmail.com
Due to Covid19 restrictions we will be unable to host our public event as we have in the past, however, we must continue to acknowledge and recognize IOAD and we have the following activities planned:
*In the month leading up to August 31st – we will have a digital billboard campaign to raise awareness of IOAD at 82 Avenue & 99 Street and 109 Street & Jasper Avenue (Edmonton, AB)
*Moms Stop The Harm – “Tie A Purple Ribbon” Campaign promotion via social media – https://www.facebook.com/groups/PurpleRibbonForOverdoseAwareness/
*August 31, 2020 at 7:30pm: An informal gathering for IOAD at Victoria Park Site 6 (12030 River Valley Rd NW) with candlelight vigil at 8.45pm as the High Level Bridge will be lit up in purple in honour of IOAD. (Candles will not be provided this year). Physically distancing measures are in place in the park. Please bring a mask.
Fairfield
Connecticut
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: 1451 Post Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Fairfield CARES Community Coalition
Contact: Reini Knorr
Phone: 2035378860
Email: FairfieldCARES@fairfieldct.org
Candlelight vigil with speakers, music, testimony, visual display
Hollister
California
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 am
Location: www.sbcopioidtaskforce.org
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: San Benito County Opioid Task Force
Contact: Veronica Johnson
Phone: 831-637-5367
Email: vjohnson@cosb.us
We are launching our tribute section to allow for community members to share their stories of loved ones lost to overdose as well as an anonymous question and answer section to provide a safe space to ask questions surround opioid use or other substances.
Indianapolis
Indiana
Date: 22/08/2020
Time: 04:00 pm
Location: 12710 Tealwood Dr.
Indianapolis, IN 46236
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Someones Child Helping Hands
Contact: Heather Feeney
Phone: 317-414-6469
Email: Schh2016c@gmail.com
Light Up The World is an online event this year due to Covid 19. We ask everyone light a candle, and post a picture of the lit candle, and where their location is.
Jackson
Tennessee
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:30 am
Location: Zoom online event
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Jackson-Madison Prevention Coalition
Contact: Kristen Wilson
Phone: 731-694-0502
Email: Kristen@jmprevent.org
Learn the signs of opioid overdose and how to administer the opioid overdose reversal drug, Naloxone.
About this Event
Training available multiple times during the day that can be chosen at registration.
Join us on International Overdose Awareness Day for a combination Narcan and Count It! Lock It! Drop It! training!
Presented by Mark Mason, Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist for R6S, Southwest TN.
Mark Mason is a Humboldt TN native. He has been with the Jackson Madison Prevention Coalition since April 2019 as the Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist (ROPS) of Region 6 South, covering all of Southwest Tennessee. His goal as a ROPS is to educate the public, medical community, law enforcement, first responders, those with Substance Use Disorders and their family on how to use the opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone (Narcan). He trains and equips individuals with the life saving drug Naloxone (Narcan). Naloxone is a prescription medication used for the treatment of an opioid emergency such as an overdose or a possible opioid overdose along with always calling 911.
Narcan Training by Mark Mason. Drop It – Count It – Lock It training by Kristen Wilson. Sessions at 9.30am, 1.30pm and 6.30pm
Jacksonville
FL
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Virtual/OnlineRegistration for 10 AM training: https://dfdnarcantraining.eventbrite.com/
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Drug Free Duval
Contact: Sally Finn, Executive Director
Phone:
Email: sally@drugfreeduval.org
In remembrance of those lost yet with hope for those that can be saved, join us on International Overdose Awareness Day for Narcan Administration Training — for Duval County and Jacksonville, FL residents, includes a free Narcan kit.
Jacksonville
FL
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: Virtual/Online
Registration link for 2:00 PM training: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/118366363981
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Drug Free Duval
Contact: Sally Finn, Executive Director
Phone:
Email: sally@drugfreeduval.org
In remembrance of those lost yet with hope for those that can be saved, join us on International Overdose Awareness Day for Narcan Administration Virtual Training — for Duval County and Jacksonville, FL residents, includes a free Narcan kit.
Knoxville
Tennessee
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 07:30 pm
Location: Zoom – Knoxville
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Tennessee Overdose Prevention
Contact: Nancy Daniels
Phone: 8655994776
Email: TNOverdosePrevention@gmail.com
Tennessee Overdose Prevention is partnering with LINKED to host our 6th annual International Overdose Awareness Day Event on August 31st, 2020 at 7:30 PM EDT. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, our event will be live-streamed over Zoom. Participants must pre-register for the event.
Our main activity will be the Candlelight Virtual Vigil. At the end of our Remembering slideshow, we are asking everyone to participate by lighting their own candle in honor of those lost to addiction, including overdose, suicide, and other effects of substance use disorder.
“In preparation for the event, our non-profit partner, LINKED, has tagged over 200 resources (of 25,000+ resources) to show you more information on IOAD activities and events across the country and ideas for community such as turning homes, bridges, and buildings purple, flying flags at half-mast, and having the message on the back of buses.
These resources may direct you to overdoseday.com to see the Activities, Ideas, the History of this event or to see the 2020 Activities for your state. Some of the activities and events may be a part of IOAD but not listed on the overdoseday.com site yet.
To find these resources and more information, visit our website
https://www.youarelinked.org/2020-international-overdose-awareness-day/”
Another way to find additional information is to search the following hashtags on your browser or on social media with the following hashtags.
#IOAD2020VirtualVigil
#IOAD2020
#IOAD2020EventsTN
#IOAD2020Purple
#IOAD2020Ideas
#IOAD2020Flags
We hope to turn a photo of the Zoom Candlelight Virtual Vigil into a digital billboard to remember those we’ve lost.
Activities leading up to the Candlelight Virtual Vigil on August 31.:
BILLBOARDS
We hope to turn a photo of the Zoom Candlelight Virtual Vigil into a billboard to remember those we’ve lost.
TOP will have at least 15 Narcan and Recovery billboards this year on Clinton Highway by Walmart and in Solway by the bridge going to Knoxville.
Click on the following link to see our billboards from 2016-2020
https://www.tnoverdoseprevention.org/billboards”
MAPPING OUR LOST LOVED ONES
“As a part of our International Overdose Awareness Day celebration, we have started a social media campaign to honor loved ones lost to overdose. We are using Jeremiah Lindemann’s Celebrating Lost Loved Ones map. Please add your loved ones and then share the link with two more people, so more people will be able to honor their loved ones.
https://www.youarelinked.org/remembering/”
TURNING YOUR COMMUNITY PURPLE
TOP has joined with other communities who are turning landmarks and lights purple in honor of International Overdose Awareness Day. TOP has continued their Facebook group called “Turning Your Community Purple 2018, 2019, 2020 that you can use to share photos of your homes, bridges and buildings turning purple and to be linked to other groups encouraging us to light up their homes and their community purple.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1542220495898776/?ref=share
PROCLAMATION & FLAGS AT HALF-MAST
The Tennessee Senate has signed a proclamation officially recognizing August 31st as International Overdose Awareness Day.
TOP created templates for an Overdose Awareness Day Proclamation and Flying our Flags at Half-Mast. These can be edited to send to governmental and city officials in other states and cities. Please contact TOP if you know a mayor or other local official with whom you could share these documents. We will share our template.
Las Vegas
Nevada
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Virtual Event
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Southern Nevada Harm Reduction Alliance
Contact: Veronica Portillo
Phone: N/A
Email: sonvharmreductionalliance@gmail.com
The Southern Nevada Harm Reduction Alliance presents our fourth annual International Overdose Awareness Day. This is our time to come together and honor those we have lost due to an overdose and to celebrate those who have found recovery. Our event will have a proclamation and vigil, online naloxone training and demonstration (with free naloxone provided if you live within the state of Nevada), and a panel for discussions and questions.
Locust Grove
Virginia
Date: 20/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: 2130 Germanna Hwy.
Locust Grove, VA 2250810000 Germanna Point Drive
Fredericksburg, VA 22408
Online via Zoom
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Germanna Community College
Contact: 540-423-9121
Phone:
Email: alandes@germanna.edu
Drive Up Pep Rally
August 20, 2020
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
In part to pep rally hosted by Student Activities. Pick up your FREE Overdose T-shirt and helpful resource packets.
Presenter: Alicia Landes and Pam Frederick, Germanna Community College
How to Participate: Locust Grove Campus parking lot
Point of contact: alandes@germanna.edu
Drive Up Pep Rally
August 21, 2020
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
In part to pep rally hosted by Student Activities. Pick up your FREE Overdose T-shirt and helpful resource packets.
Presenter: Alicia Landes and Pam Frederick, Germanna Community College
How to Participate: Fredericksburg Area Campus parking lot
Point of contact: alandes@germanna.edu
Let’s See Your Purple by Showing Support and Honoring Loved Ones
August 31, 2020
All Day
Part of International Overdose Awareness Day
If you were able to make it to the Drive Up Pep Rally and received a #END Overdose t-shirt, please send us a photo of yourself showing support or honoring a loved one who has either lost the battle to addiction or showing support for a loved one who is currently battling addiction. If you were not able to make the Drive Up Pep Rally, send us a photo of you showing support or honoring a loved one of yourself decked out in purple attire. Let’s see that purple! Photos provided during this event, can be used for distribution purposes by the college.
Details of where to send the photos coming soon.
Presenter: Hosted by Germanna Community College Counseling Services
How to Participate: TBA
Point of contact: alandes@germanna.edu
The Opiate Epidemic: What You Need to Know & How Can You Help?
August 31, 2020
10:00 am to 11:30 am
Part of International Overdose Awareness Day
Opioid addiction has been declared an epidemic and a national emergency. Since COVID, overdose deaths have increased. 8% of high school students and 7% of middle school students report taking prescription drugs not prescribed to them. It is imperative that we do a better job of identifying and treating opiate addiction. This training will give you an introduction to opiate addiction, address treatment approaches, and suggest what you can do to help.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Presenter: Carmen Greiner, Be Well Rappahannock
How to Participate: Pre-registration is required https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdeCvqT0oG9K62eRIUe2qkUHQxZrW9oDc
Point of contact: alandes@germanna.edu
Virtual REVIVE Training
August 31, 2020
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Part of International Overdose Awareness Day
Germanna is hosting VIRTUAL REVIVE training which educates participants about how to identify the signs of an opioid overdose and trains anyone how to administer the life-saving opioid reversal drug Narcan. Registration is free. Participation is limited to the first 30 to register in each virtual session. Individuals who complete the 60-minute training will receive access to a FREE dose of Narcan (Naloxone). Follow up information sent after registration is submitted.
Presenter: Sherry Norton-Williams, RACSB Prevention Specialist
How to Participate: Pre-registration is required https://bit.ly/VIRTUALREVIVE-AUG-31-2020
Point of contact: alandes@germanna.edu
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 27/07/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Online
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Association of Participating Service Users
Contact: Sam Schlicht
Phone: 0438352938
Email: apsu@sharc.org.au
Despite being unable to gather in person, the Association of Participating Service Users – a service of the Self Help Addiction Resource Centre – is determined to meaningfully honour Overdose Awareness Day.
As part of this effort, we are producing a podcast tribute to friends and loved ones lost to overdose, and hope that some of you will be willing to take part in a brief recorded telephone call to answer the following two questions:
1. Describe the person you lost and their relationship to you
2. Tell us something you would like people to know about them
Both questions can be answered any way you like. You may have a story to tell about the person, or a feeling for what they would have been doing now. You may not have anything remarkable or original to say, but just want to give a simple remembrance. Your participation is what counts.
The only thing we ask is to focus on the person rather than their drug use. We want to give a sense of the human experience that numbers and policy arguments fail to express.
In order to take part, please send an email to apsu@sharc.org.au with a weekday and time when you can talk on the phone for around 5 minutes or less. We’ll confirm by email and then give you a call when it was requested.
You will not be asked to provide any identifying details beyond what you choose to say about yourself or the person you’re commemorating. You’ll be one of many, and the recordings will only be used for this project.
Check out regular episodes of the podcast, ‘Straight From the Source, wherever you usually get your podcasts, or at https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/straight-from-the-source-apsu-podcast/
Nashville
TN
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Zoom
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Kaitlynn Whiteaker
Phone: 6154786052
Email: kjackson@starsnashville.org
An hour-long, virtual training for those that want to learn how they can help reduce overdose deaths.
Meeting ID: 672 499 1911
New Jersey
Date: 14/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: Online Event
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition & Families for Sensible Drug Policy
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Join us for a naloxone training & discussion about what non-judgemental support and radical love from families can look like.
On Friday 14 August at 5pm, New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition co-directors Jenna Mellor & Caitlin O’Neil will be joined on by Carol Katz-Beyer of Families for Sensible Drug Policy for a family overdose reversal training, followed by a discussion on harm reduction approaches to a caring for a loved one who uses drugs.
– We will discuss non-coercive aftercare, advocating for your loved one’s right to health & dignity, and engaging in radical love
– Participants can contact NJHRC after the training to request a naloxone kit and fentanyl test strip kit to be mailed to them via the NJHRC request line 1-877-4NARCAN
To tune in at 5pm on Friday 14 August, follow NJHRC on Facebook at facebook.com/njharmreduction, or message us for the link!
Nicosia
None
Date: 01/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: 35 Iosif Hadjiosif and Andreas Avraamides
1st Floor, 2028 Strovolos
Nicosia
CYPRUS
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Cyprus National Authority Against Addictions (NAAC)
Contact: Byron Jack Gaist
Phone: +3572244976
Email: b.gaist@cytanet.com.cy
NAAC will run a media campaign which includes a harm reduction theme throughout August 2020, culminating in online dissemination (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, NAAC Website) of the IOAD materials in Greek, on August 31st.
Northridge
CA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 am
Location: 1853 Navarro Ave
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: iStart, at CSUN
Contact: Jean Spielman
Phone:
Email: istart@csun.edu
Instagram posts and stories using the Overdose Awareness Day media kit.
Online / digital
Date: 01/09/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: United for Global Mental Health
Contact: webinars@unitedgmh.org
Phone:
Email: webinars@unitedgmh.org
Upcoming webinar announcement: Substance use and mental health: challenges, opportunities and first lessons during the COVID-19 outbreak
What has been the impact of COVID-19 on substance use? What is the link between this and mental health? What has been happening on the front lines? What needs to be done?
To hear the answers to these questions and more, register for the upcoming webinar on Tuesday 1st September, 14:00-14:45 BST: https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/799026500992947211
With this webinar taking place the day after the International Overdose Awareness Day, we are pleased to host an absolutely stellar panel to tackle this important topic:
• Alexander Baldacchino, President-Elect of International Society of Addiction Medicine
• Vladimir Poznyak, Unit Head for Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours at the WHO
• Olga Belyaeva, Program Coordinator of the Eurasian Network of People who Use Drugs
• Nirvana Morgan, President, Network of Early Career Professionals working in the area of Addiction Medicine
• Chair: Shekhar Saxena, Professor of Global Mental Health, Harvard
The webinar is part of a Covid-19 and Mental Health series, jointly run by United for Global Mental Health, the Lancet Psychiatry, MHPSS.net and the Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN). Our special thanks to the WHO for their help in organising this session.
Peterborough
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: City Hall 500 George St
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Brad’s Bears
Contact: Lori
Phone:
Email: bradsbearsptbo@gmail.com
On August 31st 2020 (International Overdose Awareness Day) we will be building a powerful display to showcase the severity of overdose in our community and raise awareness.
We will be at City Hall at 9:00 am to set up the display. We encourage you to bring down items (pictures of your loved ones, items that belonged to them etc) to add to our display between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm. The more personal touches we can add the more impactful the display will be
.
We will be on site from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm. We have International Overdose Awareness Day bracelets and pins to hand out as well as a wealth of resources and educational information to share. We look forward to seeing new faces and reconnecting with those we have met in the past. We are here to hear your story, come down and tell us about your loved ones and the impact overdose has had on your life. We are a safe place and EVERYONE is welcome. We believe everyone deserves an opportunity to be heard and every story matters. From 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm we invite local media and local government representatives to join us. (we ask they join us in the afternoon so the display will be fully set up with your personal touches)
If you are unable to see us in person please join our online event
https://www.facebook.com/events/290328125393066/
We are pleased to say Peterborough Aids Resource Network (PARN) will be joining us and co-hosting this event. PARN brings with them the experience of fighting the opioid crisis on the front lines as well as deep understanding of harm reduction practices.
COVID – 19 Protocol: Please keep in mind the social distancing rules. We will be outside so masks will not be mandatory, however we do encourage them. We will have some masks available for anyone unable to bring their own. We will be respectful of social distancing and kindly ask you to wait your turn to visit with us and/or place items at the display.
Phoenix
Arizona
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: On our Facebook page (@sonoranpreventionworks). Event page link: tinyurl.com/ioadaz2020
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Sonoran Prevention Works
Contact: Haley Coles
Phone: 480-442-7086
Email: events@spwaz.org
This year’s been tough. COVID, continuing police brutality toward Black people, and all of the economic fallout has driven so many of us into instability, chaos, rage, isolation, and grief. Any “wins” we’ve seen nationally around decreased overdose have quickly turned to losses. Even fewer resources and community support are available. If we want to see changes, we have to do it together.
Join us on our Facebook page for #internationaloverdoseawarenessday this year as a space to remember, learn, and strategize to keep Arizonans alive, safe, free, and thriving.
Live panel discussion with brilliant local speakers (to be announced soon) focused on the intersections of overdose, harm reduction, and racial justice.
Monday, 8/31, 5-6pm MST
tinyurl.com/ioadaz2020
We’ll also be posting community-submitted art, writings, thoughts, and more throughout the day.
Raleigh
North Carolina
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: Due to Covid 19, this year’s event will be virtual. Please join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/IOADRaleighNCRally – Or join our mailing list by emailing us at ioadraleighrally@gmail.com
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: NCAPDA (IOAD Raleigh NC)
Contact: Randy Abbott
Phone:
Email: IOADraleighrally@gmail.com
During the virtual event, you will hear from parents, siblings, and children that have been impacted by an overdose of a loved one. There will be music, resource rooms, and naloxone training. The event will end with the reading of names of our North Carolina Lost Loved Ones followed by a virtual candlelight vigil. There will also be an online photo loop as well.
Watch for more information on registration and more. the event will begin at 5:00 pm EST and run through the end of the reading of names and candlelight vigil.
San Jose
California
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 pm
Location: online at:
https://www.twitch.tv/streamforgoodevents
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Lohriemay Arruiza
Phone: 4084218232
Email: larruiza@icloud.com
Pre-recorded memorial video and concert streamed live via twitch.tv.
San Rafael
California
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: Zoom Call – Please do not use virtual backgrounds or filters, and show your video upon entry to the meeting briefly.Topic: Virtual Overdose Awareness Event
Time: Aug 31, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/upYtdO2gpzwphk5LrKhz35Hkihdb1wgXXQ/ics?icsToken=98tyKu6qrjguEt2Ss1zHa7ItOd7qbuH2knlF_49Ptxf_UHV7aQr-MuATJbVHKOmB
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/720348973?pwd=VFYvSkVoVnFJTHFoQ0MzV1JTaDVrZz09
Meeting ID: 720 348 973
Passcode: Mar1nEvent
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Michelle Leopold
Phone: 4153024055
Email: MichelleMissesTrevor@comcast.net
Marin County volunteers will present a ZOOM meeting for International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD). 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. 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.
Marin Events will include
– Overdose Awareness facts & figures
– First-Hand overdose experience speaker
– Remembrances of those who died by overdose
– Narcan and other overdose prevention resources
– Marin County resources for overdose prevention and to support those affected by addiction and a loved ones’ overdose.
– A commitment to not being silent on overdose, and overcoming the stigmatization of the disease of addiction
This event will be recorded and shared after the event.
Scotland
Date: 21/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Scottish Drugs Forum
Contact: Andy Coffey
Phone:
Email: enquires@sdf.org.uk
This is the first of two special webinars with international speakers hosted by Scottish Drugs Forum for International Overdose Awareness Day.
Around the world, people who use drugs have, for many years, created unions, groups and networks to advocate for drug policies and practices that support harm reduction, health promotion and human rights.
In the first webinar leading up to IOAD we will hear about the history of the movement, the challenges and the progress made from advocates and activists in the Netherlands, Norway and Ukraine. There will be the opportunity for questions and a panel discussion after their presentations.
Speakers include:
– Theo Van Dam from the Netherlands, is the founder of Landelijk Steunpunt Druggebruikers (LSD) Foundation, The Dutch National Interest Group of Drug Users
– Olga Belyaeva from Ukraine is Programme Coordinator for the Eurasian Network of People Who Use Drugs (ENPUD)
– Arild Knutsen from Norway leads the Association for Humane Drug Policy
The session will be chaired by Jason Wallace, Scottish Drugs Forum.
Pre-registration is required and numbers are limited so please register early.
The session will be recorded and will be published on the SDF YouTube Channel
Scotland
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Scottish Drugs Forum
Contact: Andy Coffey
Phone:
Email: enquires@sdf.org.uk
The is the second of two webinars with international speakers Scottish Drugs Forum are hosting to mark International Overdose Awareness Day 2020.
We will hear about how the dual public health emergency of drug-related deaths and Covid-19 has affected people who use drugs in Canada and Australia, the impact of this dual crisis on families and the changes now being advocated for.
The webinar will contain presentations from three International speakers followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.
Speakers include:
– Garth Mullins, host of Crackdown podcast, Vancouver, Canada
– Jane Dicka, Manager of the Drug Overdose and Peer Education (DOPE) programme, Harm Reduction Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
– Petra Schulz, one of the founding directors of Moms Stop the Harm, Canada
The presentations and Q&A will then be facilitated by:
– Colin Hutcheon, Chair of Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs, and
– Jason Wallace, SDF and Drug Death Task Force Lived Experience Member
– Kirsten Horsburgh, SDF, Strategy Coordinator (Drug Death Prevention)
St. George
UT
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82480466129?pwd=VTIxY0w4aWs3cXZ2bFE5YVpwVjR6QT09Meeting ID: 824 8046 6129
Passcode: 874954
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness
Contact: Marcie, Ben or Crystal
Phone: 435-319-8800
Email: mgray@myusara.com
Virtual Event with speakers and sharing of resources
Toronto
ON
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 am
Location: Will take place online.
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Twentytwenty Arts
Contact: Megan Kee
Phone: 6472876843
Email: megan@twentytwentyarts.com
Weathered is a digital photography exhibition & fundraising campaign raising awareness for overdose death.
Weathered is asking families to produce memorialized photographs of shoes and mementos belonging to loved ones who have lost their lives to an overdose. Weathered sets out to raise awareness for overdose death and funds for Street Health’s Overdose Prevention Site.
All photograph submissions will be accepted (June 1st – July 6th, 2020). We encourage everyone, regardless of skill level, to submit a memorialized photograph with a written description about their loved one.
All photographs, stories, videos, and content will be shared on Overdose Awareness Day (August 31st, 2020).
Additional details about the campaign can be found here: https://www.twentytwentyarts.com/weathered
Worcester
Massachusetts
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:30 pm
Location: Online – Register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qfuqvpj0rGtXNreFlXlBbRyMOulbpUk6L?fbclid=IwAR1D9TMn4rWGa1F4X2WQ9kBzXaf_MRGxsc7Rs8ep7pjsDyslC1uLnFCigz4
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Worcester Overdose Day Vigil Planning Group
Contact: Rev. Aaron Payson
Phone: 508-963-5959
Email: worcoverdoseawareness@gmail.com
The 2020 Worcester Overdose Awareness Day Vigil will be an online event. This annual opportunity to remember and honor the lives of those who have died from overdoses will feature music, remarks from area leaders, families of those who have died, and a virtual candlelighting.
Worcester
Massachusetts
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:30 pm
Location: Online – https://www.facebook.com/events/712408352871106/permalink/712719626173312/
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Worcester International Overdose Awareness Day Vigil Planning Team
Contact: Rev. Aaron Payson
Phone: 508-963-5959
Email: Worcoverdoseawareness@gmail.com
Please join us for an online vigil honoring the lives of those we’ve lost to overdoses.
- Worldwide
Boronia
Victoria
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:01 am
Location: 13
2
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Mommies and Methadone (All M.A.T Forms
Contact: Kerry Meredith
Phone: 474129698
Email: kerrymeredith86@gmail.com
We want everyone to know that you are not alone in remembering your loved ones on August 31st to a drug overdose. #IOAD is a day to show that we want to change the stigma to drug related deaths. We want to raise the awareness!! This year we are involved in an official event and all you have to do is tie a purple balloon to your mailbox. You can also decorate the front of your house in as much purple and silver as you would like to show others the love and support that you have. It is a great way to get people asking questions and giving them information if needed.
#endoverdose
It’s a Time To remember, a time to act!
Mommies and Methadone
#IOAD2020
Yakima
Washington
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 04:00 pm
Location: Virtual Event on Zoom
August 31,2020
From 4-5:30 pm
https://triumphtx.org.zoom.us/j/93595064487
Zoom ID 93595064487
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Triumph Treatment Services Parent Child Assistance Program ( PCAP )
Contact: Kim Hitchcock
Phone: 5099071105
Email: khitchcock@triumphtreatment.org
Video , live speakers, community resources
Australia
ACT
Canberra
ACT
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Primary NSP at City Health Centre 1 Moore Street Canberra City ACT
Primary NSP at Phillip Health Centre Corrina Street Woden ACT
Directions Health Service Level 6 Cosmopolitan Centre Woden ACT
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Directions Health Service
Contact: Tammy Waters
Phone: 02 61324901
Email: tammy.waters@directionshealth.com
Handing out badges and wristbands and talking to clients about overdose and handing out nasal naloxone and distributing Fentanyl test strips so clients can test their opiates to see if there are traces of fentanyl in their drug.
NSW
Clemton Park
NSW
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Online
Hosted by NADA
Suite C, Level 3
140 Williams Street
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Australia
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies (NADA)
Contact: Resli Buchel
Phone: +61 04041528566
Email: resli@nada.org.au
Training for consumers via our member organisations in take-home Naloxone provision and use.
Newcastle
NSW
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Newcastle Town Hall, Newcastle NSW
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Newcastle
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Newcastle Town Hall will be lit up purple for International Overdose Awareness Day
Sydney
NSW
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 08:00 am
Location: KRC South Sutherland Hospital 430 Kingsway Caringbah 2229
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: KRC South
Contact: Steph Martin
Phone: 0422515395
Email: Stephanie.Martin2@health.nsw.gov.au
Naloxone and overdose prevention training to all clients who attend the Needle and Syringe Exchange
Sydney
NSW
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:30 am
Location: Above the Fire station in Kings Cross
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Kirketon Road Centre
Contact: Stephanie Martin
Phone: 0422515395
Email: stephanie.martin2@health.nsw.gov.au
The Kirketon Road Centre (KRC),will be running COVID safe Naloxone training to all clients and members of the community throughout the week. The service will have education displays around the service and will be inviting clients to add a leaf to our overdose memorable tree.
KRC will also be joining NUAA and the Surry Hills Community Drug Action Team (CDAT), for an Overdose Awareness Event at Northcott on Wednesday 3rd September 12.30pm-2pm.
• Learn about Naloxone
• How do you respond to a overdose
• Talk to peers, health professionals and community volunteers
• Pick up some overdose resources and information
• Handing out badges and wristbands
• Delicious lunch provided by Surry Hills CDAT
Due to COVID-19 conditions this event will adhere to all health advisories and public health orders
Participants will be given a mask and hand sanitizer to use throughout the event
NT
Darwin
NT
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Across our 3 NSP locations:
– Darwin 46 Woods st
– Palmerston Cnr of Temple tce and Roystonia st.
– Alice Springs shop3 Reg Harris Lane, Todd Mall
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: NTAHC
Contact: Pete or Shayne
Phone: 0889447777
Email: info@ntahc.org.au
On August 31 let’s join together to remember loved ones and help prevent overdose in our community. Time to Remember. Time to Act.
NTAHC NSPs in Darwin, Palmerston and Alice Springs
Memorial Tree will be placed in our 3 NSP’s – write a name of someone you have lost, place the tag on the tree branch.
We collect all the names after, the trees are then planted on our staff members block of land as a permanent memorial tree.
9am to 5pm week days in August.
Read more at Http://ww.overdoseday.com
QLD
Brisbane
QLD
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Kurilpa Bridge, Brisbane
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Brisbane
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Kurilpa Bridge will be lit up purple on International Overdose Awareness Day in honour of the people who have been lost to overdose
Brisbane
QLD
Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Victoria Bridge, Brisbane
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Brisbane
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Victoria Bridge will be lit up purple on International Overdose Awareness Day in honour of the people who have been lost to overdose
Brisbane
QLD
Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Story Bridge, Brisbane
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Brisbane
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Story Bridge will be lit up purple on International Overdose Awareness Day in honour of the people who have been lost to overdose
Brisbane
QLD
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Private Location
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Jasmin Raggam
Phone:
Email: jmraggam@hotmail.com.au
Due to COVID-19 social distancing rules and keeping our supporters and the public safe I have decided to host this year’s event at a private location with limited people invited to attend in person, however everyone is invited to tune in online as we will be uploading videos throughout the day to social media awareness pages, plenty of pics and some live streaming.
Sadly, now we have around 500 hearts. Every heart represents a life, I feel personally connected to each of the hearts, behind each heart is a life lost, a broken family, a tragic story and a million tears.
Heart to Heart is an event focused on what our Purple Hearts symbolize and is an opportunity to get to know more about some of the people each heart represents, a snapshot of their story and the families they left behind.
More details about this event will be published here during the next few days.
Brisbane
QLD
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Brisbane Town Hall, Brisbane QLD
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Brisbane
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Brisbane Town Hall will be lit up purple for International Overdose Awareness Day
Brisbane
QLD
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Sandgate Town Hall, Brisbane QLD
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Brisbane
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Sandgate Town Hall will be lit up purple for International Overdose Awareness Day
Gold Coast
QLD
Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location: Hota Gold Coast.
Picnic area left of the lake on the corner overlooking river to chevron island.
There is a purple Rock there and we will have lots of signage and lots of purple!!!
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Sandra McGivern
Phone: +61413679790
Email: smcg@iinet.net.au
A Sunday family picnic Day to bring attention to #endoverdose. We will have a short information presentation about overdose awareness, removing the stigma of overdose and drug related deaths and injury, followed by a remembrance ceremony for our loved ones lost to overdose.
Picnic snacks, soft drinks and entertainment supplied by Sandra and guests asked to donate to Pennington Institute IOAD fund.
PLEASE WEAR PURPLE XXX
Rockhampton
QLD
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Rockhampton Alcohol and Other Drugs Service
Sterling Place, Rockhampton 4700 Queensland
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Rockhampton Alcohol and Other Drugs Service
Contact: Rebecca Adams
Phone:
Email: rebecca.adams5@health.qld.gov.au
Rockhampton Alcohol and Other Drugs staff coming together for a morning tea to discuss our what is available for overdose prevention within our community and service + trivia to engage new team members with facts around naloxone and overdose statistics.
SA
Port Adelaide
SA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: St Paul’s Anglican Church, Port Adelaide
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
St Paul’s Anglican Church will be lit up purple for International Overdose Awareness Day in honour of the people who have been lost to overdose
TAS
Devonport
TAS
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:30 am
Location: Anglicare – 31 King Street, Devonport, Tasmania, 7310
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Anglicare Tasmania Inc.
Contact: Sean Robinson
Phone: 1800 243 232
Email: seans@anglicare-tas.org.au
International Overdose Awareness Day is the 31st August 2020. #IOAD2020.
Why Cranes? SENBAZURU is the art of folding 1,000 paper cranes. It is said that if you fold 1,000 paper cranes and make a wish, it will come true.
Each crane will be hung and photographed to become part of a larger digital artwork put together by the Alcohol Tobacco and other Drugs Council (ATDC) to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day 2020.
Anglicare are calling on members of the Tasmanian community to help fold Japanese cranes and to share tributes to remember Tasmanians lost to overdose and wish for a community free from the harm of overdose.
Drug overdose continues to impact Tasmanians of all backgrounds – with more than one person lost every week to overdose across Tasmania
Come along to help us fold cranes to create another memorial to those lost to overdose and an opportunity to discuss the risks and impact of overdose.
*Silver Overdose Awareness Day pins available on the day
“Crane Making Workshop”
Come and see our flying crane display!
With Guest Alison Lai, CEO Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council Tasmania
When: 31st August 2020, 11:30am – 1:30pm
Where: Anglicare Devonport 31 King Street, Devonport TAS 7310
RSVP by 30th August to seans@anglicare-tas.org.au (Places limited due to Covid restrictions)
*Refreshments provided
Hobart
TAS
Date: 18/05/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Suite 1, Level 1, 175 Collins Street
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council Tasmania
Contact: Katie Henderson
Phone: 6231 5002
Email: katie@atdc.org.au
SENBAZURU is the art of folding 1,000 paper cranes. It is said that if you fold 1,000 paper cranes and make a wish, it will come true.
The Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council is calling on members of the Tasmanian community to help fold Japanese cranes and to share tributes to remember Tasmanians lost to overdose and wish for a community free from the harm of overdose.
Take a photo of each single, origami, folded crane so it can be a part of a larger digital artwork to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day. This year we’d also like you to share what Overdose Day means to you. In remembrance of those who have lost their lives or been injured, we invite you to submit a tribute along with your origami cranes.
We will be releasing the large digital artwork on 31st August to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day and show the impact that overdose has on anyone within the community.
Crane photos to be submitted by Tuesday, 18th August.
VIC
Ballarat
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location: Online event
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Ballarat Community Health
Contact: Kate Davenport
Phone:
Email: kateda@bchc.org.au
Unfortunately due to COVID-19 restrictions, Ballarat Community Health will be unable to host a public event this year. Instead we have created a virtual candlelight remembrance video sharing messages from loved ones who have been affected by overdose.
In the weeks leading up to Overdose Day we will be sharing information on our Facebook page about overdose and naloxone.
Ballarat
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Ballarat Lake Fountains
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Ballarat Lake Fountains will be lit up purple for International Overdose Awareness Day in honour of the people who have been lost to overdose
Ballarat
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Ballarat Town Hall
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Ballarat Town Hall will be lit up purple for International Overdose Awareness Day in honour of the people who have been lost to overdose
Footscray
VIC
Date: 04/09/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Healthworks Footscray and Braybrook NSP outlets
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: CoHealth/Healthworks
Contact: Ben and Natalya
Phone: 0408246696
Email: OD.Ed@cohealth.org.au
Healthworks will be streaming an online presentation and message at midday. Hamper bags will also be available from both the Braybrook and Footscray NSP sites as well as from our outreach team.
Geelong
VIC
Date: 03/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Various
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Barwon Health
Contact: Craig Harvey
Phone: 0417 521 360
Email: craig.harvey@barwonhealth.org.au
For 3 months, commencing in August – Barwon Health will be displaying a powerful message, reminding the public of the importance of carrying naloxone. Utilising bus advertising, a large advertisement covering the entire rear of a public transport bus will be displayed.
Further, during the week of Overdose Awareness Day, each NSP delivery will receive custom made fortune cookies, containing overdose prevention messages and information on how to access free naloxone, locally.
Both these strategies were designed in light of COVID-19 restrictions which have limited face to face contact with those that access harm reduction services.
Hawthorn
VIC
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Online
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Access Health and Community
Contact: Sarah Corkran
Phone:
Email: sarah.corkran@accesshc.org.au
Access Health and Community is moving their Overdose Awareness Day commemoration online this year, due to the global pandemic. We’ll be hosting a 7-day social media campaign to provide educational posts from our clinicians and raise awareness. We’ll also be posting a Q&A video with our clinicians on different topics relating to overdose. On the 31st of August we’re encouraging all staff to wear purple to show their support. Finally, we’ll be sending out an IOAD themed newsletter to those on our mailing lists.
Mebourne
VIC
Date: 27/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Port Phillip Prison
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Uniting ReGen
Contact: bernadette maxwell
Phone: 9217 7222
Email: bernadette.maxwell@au.g4s.com
Remember me
We will be holding an event in which both prisoners and staff remember who has been touched by overdose.
We aim to highlight the risk of those leaving prison and our commitment to reducing the risk of overdose post release.
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 27/07/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Online
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Association of Participating Service Users
Contact: Sam Schlicht
Phone: 0438352938
Email: apsu@sharc.org.au
Despite being unable to gather in person, the Association of Participating Service Users – a service of the Self Help Addiction Resource Centre – is determined to meaningfully honour Overdose Awareness Day.
As part of this effort, we are producing a podcast tribute to friends and loved ones lost to overdose, and hope that some of you will be willing to take part in a brief recorded telephone call to answer the following two questions:
1. Describe the person you lost and their relationship to you
2. Tell us something you would like people to know about them
Both questions can be answered any way you like. You may have a story to tell about the person, or a feeling for what they would have been doing now. You may not have anything remarkable or original to say, but just want to give a simple remembrance. Your participation is what counts.
The only thing we ask is to focus on the person rather than their drug use. We want to give a sense of the human experience that numbers and policy arguments fail to express.
In order to take part, please send an email to apsu@sharc.org.au with a weekday and time when you can talk on the phone for around 5 minutes or less. We’ll confirm by email and then give you a call when it was requested.
You will not be asked to provide any identifying details beyond what you choose to say about yourself or the person you’re commemorating. You’ll be one of many, and the recordings will only be used for this project.
Check out regular episodes of the podcast, ‘Straight From the Source, wherever you usually get your podcasts, or at https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/straight-from-the-source-apsu-podcast/
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Bolte Bridge
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Melbourne
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Bolte Bridge will be lit up purple on International Overdose Awareness Day in honour of the people who have been lost to overdose
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Melbourne Star, Docklands
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Melbourne
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Melbourne Star will be lit up purple on International Overdose Awareness Day in honour of the people who have been lost to overdose
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: AAMI Park
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Melbourne
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
AAMI Park will be lit up purple on International Overdose Awareness Day in honour of the people who have been lost to overdose
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 29/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Melbourne Town Hall
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Melbourne
Contact: Jean-Francois
Phone:
Email: jean-francois.piery@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Melbourne Town Hall will be lit up purple to honour all the lives lost to overdose.
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 07:30 pm
Location: Event link is here:
International Overdose Awareness Day Online Forum – Compassion Not Judgement
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Apod Family Support
Contact: Debbie Warner
Phone: 0412382812
Email: Debbie@apod.org.au
Online Event – Compassion not Judgement
Guest Speakers Professor Margaret Hamilton, Sam Biondo (VAADA), Dr. Nico Clark (NRCH) and families and people with lived experience of the impact of drug overdose.
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Flinders Street Station
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Melbourne
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Flinders Street Station will be lit purple for International Overdose Awareness Day 2020
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 01/09/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: Tuesday 1st September, 2-3pm AEST
https://zoom.us/j/98331966504?pwd=VmpkMnU1NkVnSUVramNLYjU4NEVxdz09
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Burnet Institute
Contact: Penny Hill
Phone:
Email: penny.hill@burnet.edu.au
August 31 2020 marks the 20th year of the International Overdose Awareness Day. Sadly, every year thousands of people die as a result of opioid overdose. Yet these deaths are preventable.
This event will be hosted online by the Burnet Institute and present some of the latest work on responses to opioid overdose that is being conducted by the Institute and its collaborators across Australia and internationally.
This one-hour event will feature three speakers from the Behaviours and Health Risks Program at the Institute. The program will run as follows:
1. Setting the scene, international patterns in opioid overdose: Amanda Roxburgh
2. The Stop Overdose Safely initiative, a WHO/UNODC program to scale-up take-home naloxone in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine: Paul Dietze (on behalf of the SOS project team)
3. Opioid overdose deaths in Australia – are we doing enough? Amanda Roxburgh
4. Scaling up take-home naloxone across Australia: Penny Hill (on behalf of the National Naloxone Reference Group)
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Facebook Live from Parliament House, Melbourne. Streamed on the Facebook page of Fiona Patten MP.
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Mira
Phone: 9386 4400
Email: fiona.patten@parliament.vic.gov.au
We will be paying tribute to lives lost to overdose. Anyone who would like us to pay tribute to their loved one, please send through their name, a short message and a flower that best represents their life by 11am AEST Monday 31st of August. fiona.patten@parliament.vic.gov.au
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 04:30 pm
Location: Online
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Harm Reduction Victoria
Contact: Jane Dicka
Phone: 03 93291500
Email: janed@hrvic.org.au
Online training for people who use and inject drugs & friends and family. Naloxone provided.
Melbourne
VIC
Date: 10/11/2020
Time: 12:00 am
Location: 711/450 st kilda rd
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Oddessy
Contact: Bonnie
Phone: 0450031258
Email:
Educating young adults what it is like to go threw a serious drug addiction and beat it
St Kilda
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:59 am
Location: 29-31 Grey Street, St Kilda
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: The Salvation Army – 24/7 NSP and Access Health – St Kilda
Contact: rebecca thatcher
Phone: 9536 7780
Email: rebecca.thatcher@salvationarmy.org.au
Acknowledging the members of our community who have taken it upon themselves to train up in overdose response and naloxone administration including the many people who have themselves saved the lives of friends, peers, family and strangers who have overdosed. Anyone who visits our services on 31st August 2020 will receive a small care and appreciation gift.
To mark the 20th anniversary, The Salvation Army will be promoting IOAD and it’s origins at our site’s in St Kilda by founder SJ Finn on it’s many social and other community platforms.
St. Kilda
VIC
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Telehealth/online
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Thorne Harbour Health
Contact: Nic Robinson-Griffith
Phone: 0458889987
Email: Nic.robinson-griffith@thorneharbour.org
A morning tea, taking the form of an education and reflection space. Acknowledging the impacts of overdose on the LGBTI community and working to share knowledge amongst the organisation to reduce stigma.
St.Kilda
VIC
Date: 27/08/2020
Time: 05:30 pm
Location: ONLINE
Bookings via the followinghttps://www.trybooking.com/BKZZG
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training
Contact: Delwyn Maxwell
Phone:
Email: Delwyn@firststep.org.au
10 Community Health Organisations from St.Kilda & surrounds have come together to present this online event for International Overdose Awareness Day.
Learn:
– the signs & symptoms of opioid overdose
-how to administer the opioid reversal drug Naloxone
-obtain information about where to obtain Naloxone via the Naloxone Subsidy Initiative
-where to go for support services
– there will also be an opportunity for Q&A
St.Kilda
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:30 pm
Location: ONLINERegistrations via:
https://www.trybooking.com/BKZZH
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training
Contact: Delwyn
Phone:
Email: Delwyn@firststep.org.au
Community Health Organisations from St.Kilda and surrounds have come together to present this ONLINE event for International Overdose Awareness Day.
Learn:
-the signs & symptoms of overdose
-how to administer the opioid reversal drug Naloxone
-where to obtain Naloxone via the Naloxone Subsidy Initiative
-information on how to access support services
-opportunity for Q&A
Swan Hill
VIC
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: 70 Nyah Road, Swan Hill 3585
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Mallee District Aboriginal Services
Contact: Suszanna Aertssen
Phone: 50328600
Email: saertssen@mdas.org.au
Wear purple day on 28/8 for IOAD! Have members from our Social Emotional Wellbeing Team create a video to acknowledge the day and to talk about statistics of our ATSI population.
The Basin
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location: The Salvation Army Bridge Program
49 Basin-Olinda Rd
The Basin VIC 3154
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: The Salvation Army
Contact: Naomi Loveday
Phone: 03 9760 9212
Email: naomi.loveday@salvationarmy.org.au
Providing group education on overdose prevention, overdose treatment, and Naloxone use
Victoria
VIC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 am
Location: Hi All,
This is a save the date for Monday 31/08/2020 at 12pm (midday) to please attend our International Overdose Prevention Day presentation.
This year, due to the global pandemic we are putting on a Zoom session with songs, poetry, facts & figures to highlight and destigmatise this critical issue.
The representative colour for International Overdose Prevention Day is PURPLE, so please, come along with some PURPLE in your attire and show some solidarity for this worthy cause.Kind Regards,
The Stepping Up Barwon Overdose Prevention TeamMisty, Nat & Chris
Zoom Address
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87591578405
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Stepping-Up Barwon
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Misty Collins
Phone: 0435657925
Email: Mcollins@stepping.up.org.au
INTERNATIONAL OVERDOSE AWARENESS DAY
Monday the 31 of August 2020 @ 12pm
International Overdose Awareness Day is a global event held on the 31st of August each year and aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug related death. It is our aim to acknowledge the grief and loss felt by families, friends and the community – remembering those who have died of or have a permanent injury as a result of an overdose.
Open House Event The representative colour for international overdose prevention day is purple. Please come along with some purple in your attire to show some solidarity for this worthy cause
For any further information please contact:
mcollins@stepping-up.org.au
Zoom address: 875 9157 8405
WA
Broome
WA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: The Boat launching Ramp at Entrance Point in Broome. We will gather there for a brief remembrance activity before returning to the Cyrenian House office on Pembroke Road in Broome.
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Cyrenian House
Contact: Sally Malone
Phone: 91926400
Email: smalone@cyrenianhouse.com
Community members will be invited to attend at small gathering at Entrance Point in Broome. There will be a greeting, a brief remembrance activity comprising some readings, sharing of stories and laying of flowers in the ocean. Supports will be offered to all attendees who are affected by loss of someone to overdose. After the event a morning tea will be shared at the office of Cyrenian House in Broome.
Perth
WA
Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Trafalgar Bridge
Perth WA
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Perth
Contact: City of Perth
Phone:
Email: info.city@cityofperth.wa.gov.au
Trafalgar Bridge will light up Purple on the 30th and 31st August for International Overdose Awareness Day
Perth
WA
Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Council House
27 St Georges Terrace
Perth
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Perth
Contact: City of Perth
Phone:
Email: info.city@cityofperth.wa.gov.au
Council House will light up purple on the 30th and 31st of August for International Overdose Awareness Day
Perth
WA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Mandurah Bridge, Perth WA
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Perth
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Mandurah Bridge will be lit up Purple for International Overdose Awareness Day
Perth
WA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Matagarup Bridge, Perth WA
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Perth
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Matagarup Bridge will be lit up purple for International Overdose Awareness Day
Perth
WA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Mount Street Bridge, Perth WA
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Perth
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Mount Street Bridge will be lit purple for International Overdose Awareness Day
Perth
WA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Sky Ribbon Bridge, Perth WA
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Perth
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Sky Ribbon Bridge will be lit purple for International Overdose Awareness Day
Perth
WA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Graham Farmer Freeway Tunnel, Perth WA
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Perth
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Graham Farmer Freeway Tunnel will be lit purple for International Overdose Awareness Day
Perth
WA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:30 am
Location: Hyde Park, North Perth.
East end of Glendower Street side, lake-side under Magnolia tree.
(Contact Cyrenian House to request a map if required)
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Vanessa
Phone: 93289200
Email: enquiry@cyrenianhouse.com
Cyrenian House will be holding a morning memorial gathering in remembrance to the loved ones that have been lost or harmed by substance use.
The event will go ahead – rain, hail or shine. Feel free to bring a flower or branch tribute to place under the tree. Information on our services, including support for families and anyone affected by the substance use by another person, will be available.
If you have a poem, song, or any other dedication, email or call us as we may be able to fit it in.The event is scheduled to conclude around 9am.
Perth
WA
Date: 27/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Peer Based Harm Reduction WA
Perth Office:
A: 22/7 Aberdeen Street, Perth, WA, 6000
T: (08) 9325 8387
E: info@harmreductionwa.org
@: www.harmreductionwa.org
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Peer Based Harm Reduction WA
Contact: Angela Corry
Phone: 0893258387
Email: info@harmreductionwa.org
– NSEP noticeboard, video displays and flyer promoting International Overdose Day and naloxone brief education availability at Peer Based Harm Reduction WA
– Memorial tree window display in the NSEP, with leaves for consumers to write messages on, which are transferred into a book of overdose messages
– International overdose day badges distributed to consumers who access Peer Based Harm reduction WA services
PERTH
WA
Date: 27/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Peer Based Harm Reduction WABunbury Office:
A: 97 Spencer Street, Bunbury, WA, 6230
T: (08) 9791 6699
E: info@harmreductionwa.org
@: www.harmreductionwa.org
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Peer Based Harm Reduction WA
Contact: Susan Carruthers
Phone: 0897916699
Email: info@harmreductionwa.org
– NSEP noticeboard, and video displays and flyer promoting International Overdose Day and naloxone brief education availability at Peer Based Harm Reduction WA
– Memorial tree window display in the NSEP, with leaves for consumers to write messages on, which are transferred into a book of overdose messages
– International overdose day badges distributed to consumers who access Peer Based Harm reduction WA fixed site and outreach services
– Mobile NSEP promotion of International Overdose Day including posters and badges at sites in Manjimup, Margaret River and Busselton
PERTH
WA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Hyde Park Overdose Memorial Tree (at the Lake Street entrance in Highgate)
Perth, WA
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Peer Based Harm Reduction WA
Contact: Diane Lloyd
Phone: 0893258387
Email: info@harmreductionwa.org
Community Event:
– Memorial plaque at the memorial tree in memory of those lost to drug use
– Wooden crosses on display with the memorial plaque in memory of those lost to drug use
– A place to remember those lost to drug use on International Overdose Day
Perth
WA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 am
Location: Yagan Square, Perth WA
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Mental Health Commission
Contact: Grace Oh
Phone:
Email: grace.oh@mhc.wa.gov.au
Yagan Square screen will have purple and silver lights running from 6am til midnight.
Rolling Penington Institute poster images and messages, Perth services IOAD events and a message that naloxone is available free for pharmacies in WA
Austria
Vienna
Vienna
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: Vienna, private garden/city centre
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Doro , Manu, Sabine
Phone:
Email:
Mothers of drug victims Austria: “Purplewinggroup” private meeting to honour our children. If possible and Covid-19 restrictions allow us we will take a “purple walk” through 1 district in Vien.
Canada
Alberta
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Worlds Tallest Teepee
Address: 15 Eagle Birth Rd SW, Medicine Hat, AB T1B 4W1, Canada
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Medicine Hat Drug Coaliltion
Contact: Kym
Phone: Porter
Email: kym.porter@mhcbe.ab.ca
Due to Covid restrictions, our event will be low key this year.
We will still be honouring the lives lost and the ongoing struggle by offering an awareness event with naloxone training, candle light vigil, information and an ability to safely connect with others in our small community of Medicine Hat Alberta Canada.
Our city is home to the worlds largest teepee and it will be lit in purple for a week at the end of August.
I have made this small display hosting 48 hearts for the 48 souls no longer here but still loved and grieved deeply.
BC
Kamloops
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Private
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Local Kamloops woman creates a display in her front yard to honour her nephew
Brantford
Ontario
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Brantford, Brant County, Haldimand, and Norfolk
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: IOAD Planning Committee Brantford, Haldimand, Norfolk
Contact: Allie Torrance
Phone: 905 520 8083
Email: hrbrant@aidsnetwork.ca
Moving to a community engagement and online format, the IOAD planning committee has been working to develop an online campaign with a week of social media engagement activities, resources, personal stories, videos, and calls to action. During the week leading up to August 31st, we are asking community members, local businesses, and community organizations to show their solidarity with people who use drugs by hosting a banner or poster within their spaces and in their windows containing important messaging and demands to end the overdose crisis and to improve the lives of people who use drugs in our communities. All of the work throughout this week will be shared and posted across social media platforms. We will be holding a online debrief space after August 31st to hold space for people who have been impacted by overdose, as a space of solidarity, of anger, of healing, of tribute and of love.
Brockville
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: Brockville City Hall
1 King St W
Brockville, Ontario
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Brockville’s Overdose Outreach Team
Contact: Jessica Besharah
Phone: 6134989041
Email: jesbesharah@gmail.com
Laying out 13 people in honour of the 13 people we have lost so far this year from the toxic drug supply. We will have naloxone and other safe supplies available along with as much educational items that we can!
Burnaby
British Columbia
Date: 31/10/2020
Time: 12:00 am
Location: Metrotown SkyTrain station
4401 Beresford St, Burnaby, BC V5H 2Y4, Canada
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Sandra Laframboise
Phone:
Email:
An awareness event featuring speakers surrounded by a display of dozens of purple flags, each bearing a message about the overdose crisis.
Calgary
Alberta
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: 731 36 street NW
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Change the Face of Addiction
Contact: Jessica
Phone:
Email: jessica.afcfa@gmail.com
We will be hosting informational zoom sessions from Monday, August 24 to Friday, August 28 featuring presentations on naloxone training and harm reduction best practices, as well as information on grief support.
Campbell River
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:25 pm
Location: Online/Digital
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Spirit Tribe Bath and Beyond
Contact: Stephanie Elickus
Phone:
Email: blondie6792@gmail.com
Join us this day to remember loved ones lost due to overdose, feel free to add your purple empty chair photos or just attend to support those who have lost. We want to end the stigma. This can happen to anyone. Lets change the future for those still suffering from addiction and youth at risk.
Campbell River
B.C
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Between Highway 19A and Dogwood Street
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Masters of Hope (MOH)
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
On a banner, people to come and write the names of loved ones they lost. There will be purple-coloured empty chairs lined up to represent the space of loved ones people present had lost.
Chatham-Kent
Ontario
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 01:00 am
Location: 50 Adelaide St S
Chatham, On
N7M 5K7
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Chatham-Kent Drug Awareness Council
Contact: Marjorie
Phone: Crew
Email: mcrew@familyservicekent.com
CK Drug Awareness Council Media Campaign for International Overdose Awareness Day.
August 31 is International Overdoes Awareness Day
Campaign length: August 24- Sept 3
*During this period there will be radio and social media messages
*Purple ribbons will be placed around the community in memory of those who have died or suffered injury from overdose. We are encouraging everyone to tie a purple ribbon to end the stigma around drug related deaths.
*Purple T-shirts to wear on August 31, are available- see previous post.
*August 31 Memorial Facebook Live- 11 am
Chilliwack
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Jenna Huack
Phone:
Email:
Vigil of remembrance
Chilliwack
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Salish Park
45900 First Ave, Chilliwack, BC V2P 7K1, Canada
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Melina Elektra, founder
Phone:
Email: chilliwackops@gmail.com
Chilliwack Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) will host a candelight vigil for loved ones the community has lost to overdose.
Purple ribbons are available for everybdy.
COBOURG
ON
Date: 25/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: youtube.com
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Green Wood Coalition
Contact: David Sheffield
Phone: 9052697610
Email: greenwoodcoalition@gmail.com
We will host an online screening of the short documentary film, ‘the commUNITY project’, produced by the Haliburton Kawartha Lakes Northumberland Drug Strategy. It will be available to watch August 25-31 at youtube.com (see link below).
“Canada is facing an opioid crisis. People are dying in unprecedented numbers and communities across the country are struggling to find ways to address the problem. As the issue continues to create division, the question becomes, how do we build more compassionate communities in the face of the struggle? Can kindness help us heal?”
Courtenay
BC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: 1- Courtenay Art Gallery is hosting Community Action Team event on the plaza
2- 5th Street & England Ave, Courtenay
3- hoping for sites in Comox and Cumberland too. Still working on gathering volunteers to get signatures on petition
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Jennifer Hedican
Phone: 250-218-2740
Email: 1hed3@telus.net
Gather signatures on petition, asking the Federal Government of Canada to appropriately respond to the Overdose Crisis.
Three asks:
1. Declare the current opioid overdose and fentanyl poisoning crisis a National Public Health Emergency under the Emergencies Act in order to manage and resource it with the aim to reduce and eliminate preventable deaths.
2. Reform current drug policy to decriminalize personal possession.
3. Create with urgency and immediacy a system to provide safe unadulterated access to substances so that people who use substances, experimentally, recreationally or chronically, are not at imminent risk of overdose due to a contaminated source.
CRANBROOK
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:45 am
Location: 209A 16 AVE N CRANBROOK, BC
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: ANKORS & EKNPUD
Contact: Jessica Lamb
Phone: 2504278008
Email: supply.or.we.die@gmail.com
10.45am – Peaceful Protest March to City Hall from ANKORS
Events to follow in Rotary Park:
– Introductions and Opening Prayers from the Ktunaxa Nation
– BBQ, open mic and guest speakers
– activities including: naloxone training, FTIR drug testing, memorial wall
Evening Remembrance Vigil in Rotary Park in evening with lit candles and moment of silence.
CRANBROOK
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Street Angels
46 17th ave s
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Ktunaxa Social Sector
Contact: Laura Wittkopf
Phone: 250-464-0573
Email: laura.wittkopf@ktunaxa.org
International Overdose Awareness Day
Where: Street Angels
When: August 31st from 11am to 2pm
What: Street Angels, Scotty’s Recovery and Mary Basil Detox are hosting a community BBQ for Overdose Awareness. There will be take away burgers and pop, Naloxone training and demonstrations, discussions about overdoses in BC, and information about harm reduction. Please practice social distancing, sanitize, and watch for space markers when getting your food/drink.
Naloxone kits available.
Dartmouth
Nova Scotia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: 68 Highfield Park Drive.
Dartmouth, NS
B3Z 0A5
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs
Contact: Natasha Touesnard
Phone:
Email: natasha@capud.ca
Please join Highfield PharmaChoice & the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD) for a community naloxone training including stories of lived experience of reversing overdoses with naloxone. We aim to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of drug-related deaths.
International Overdose Awareness Day spreads the message that overdose death is preventable and acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends remembering those who have died or had a permanent injury as a result of drug overdose.
Delta
British Colombia
Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: North Delta Community Park
11311 84th Ave Delta BC
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Delta Community Action Table
Contact: Kim Ghilarducci
Phone:
Email:
Gathering of people from the Delta Community Action table for photo. Crosses, flags, banner, tshirts #endoverdose. We would like to be able to hold a public event, but covid restrictions prevents that so, it is strictly a private event that will be posted publically after on our webpage
Delta
BC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Delta City Hall
Mountain View Blvd, Delta BCDelta School District office
4585 Harvest Dr Delta BC
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: City of Delta and SD37
Contact: Kim Ghilarducci
Phone:
Email:
Light up purple of both Delta City Hall and Delta School District Office with purple lights in commemoration of IOAD
Time of light up is unclear but will be in evening
Edmonton
Alberta
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Online activities, purple ribbon campaign, via digital billboard campaign and at Victoria Park Site 6 for an informal gathering and candlelight vigil. Bring masks
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Healing Hearts with Moms Stop The Harm
Contact: Angela
Phone:
Email: HealingHeartsEdmonton@gmail.com
Due to Covid19 restrictions we will be unable to host our public event as we have in the past, however, we must continue to acknowledge and recognize IOAD and we have the following activities planned:
*In the month leading up to August 31st – we will have a digital billboard campaign to raise awareness of IOAD at 82 Avenue & 99 Street and 109 Street & Jasper Avenue (Edmonton, AB)
*Moms Stop The Harm – “Tie A Purple Ribbon” Campaign promotion via social media – https://www.facebook.com/groups/PurpleRibbonForOverdoseAwareness/
*August 31, 2020 at 7:30pm: An informal gathering for IOAD at Victoria Park Site 6 (12030 River Valley Rd NW) with candlelight vigil at 8.45pm as the High Level Bridge will be lit up in purple in honour of IOAD. (Candles will not be provided this year). Physically distancing measures are in place in the park. Please bring a mask.
Edmonton
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Victoria Park
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Hundreds of shoes will be placed in Victoria park on Monday night in honour of International Overdose Awareness Day
Goderich
Ontario
Date: 20/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Skylarr Macdonald-Webster
Phone:
Email: admin@tannerstefflerfoundation.com
Overdose awareness raising through t-shirt sales
Purple t-shirts are being sold to raise money for the Tanner Steffler Foundation, created in honour of the Seaforth teen who died from a drug overdose in June of 2017
Grand Prairie
Alberta
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: 100 Street, Grand Prairie
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Peace Country Drug Awareness Coalition
Contact: Tyla Savard
Phone:
Email:
Peace Country Drug Awareness Coalition advocates lined 100 Street to raise awareness of the ongoing opioid crisis.
Guelph
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Kenneth Armstrong
Phone:
Email:
A community event to spread awareness on IOAD including multiple speeches.
Guelph
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Guelph Public LIbrary
100 Norfolk Street, Guelph, ON
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Adrienne Crowder
Phone:
Email:
Crisis Phone 2020 is an art installation that will be on display for the next six months outside the Norfolk Street library. It consists of a decommissioned public telephone painted red and black, with quotes scrawled in either black or white paint.
The project is intended as a reflection on the opioid crisis and the impact it is having on the community in Guelph.
The installation consists of a standalone public telephone which has been repainted and covered in quotations relevant to the conversation.
At its heart is a black telephone and below it where the phone book would be found are empty pages that can be filled by people passing by.
Hope
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Hope and Area Transition Society
400 Park St.
Hope, BC
V0X1L0
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Hope Community Action Team
Contact: Chris Battle
Phone: 604-860-5759
Email: chris.battle@hopetransition.org
The purpose behind our event is to shed light on overdose and to honor those we have lost. We will have tables with HR supplies, plans for education (Naloxone training, etc.), purple ribbons, sidewalk chalk, purple heart posties, and masks to give away. Free BBQ. All welcome.
Kimberley
British Columbia
Date: 29/08/2020
Time: 08:00 pm
Location: Cenotaph
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: EKNPUD
Contact: Jessica Lamb
Phone: 2504278008
Email: supply.or.we.die@gmail.com
Meet at the Cenotaph, Peaceful Protest March through the Platzl with a coffin, and back to the Cenotaph for moment of slience and a opportunity for people to speak.
Please wear a mask and follow physical distancing and COVID protocols
Kitchener
Date: 01/08/2020
Time: 12:00 am
Location: **VIRTUAL**
Follow along on our social media pages: @BFOMR on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Bereaved Families of Ontario
Contact: Jaime Bickerton
Phone: 519-603-0196
Email: jaime@bfomidwest.org
In commemoration of International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, 2020, we are launching an education campaign during the month of August. We hope to reduce the stigma and prejudice associated with deaths by substance use, build awareness and educate the community about the impact it can have on individuals and families who are grieving, and promote access to supports.
Each week through the month of August, our education campaign will focus on various aspects of substance use and the grief associated with this type of death.
We will be discussing:
August 4-7: Stigma and the importance of language
August 10-14: Complicated grief and how it relates to deaths by substance use
August 17-21: Member stories and finding meaning
August 24-28: Resources, supports and International Overdose Awareness Day events
All of our campaign and discussion materials will be available through our social media channels (@BFOMR on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) and weekly emails through the month of August.
Langley
British Columbia
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Langley Overdose Community Action Table
Contact: Daniel
Phone:
Email:
Langley CAT have prepared purple flags to be placed in two public locations in Fort Langley and at the Derek Doubleday Arboretum. There will be 144 flags placed in the ground, to represent the 144 lives Langley has lost to overdose since 2016.
The Douglas Park Spirit Square and the 200 Street Overpass will be lit up purple from dusk Aug 31st to dawn Sept 1st.
Leduc
AB
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: Civic Centre
#1 Alexandra Park
Leduc, AB, Canada
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Dylan’s Hope Foundation
Contact: Jessica Farmer
Phone: 7802930789
Email: timetoactleduc@shaw.ca
Dylan’s Hope Foundation will be hosting the 3rd Annual Overdose Awareness, Prevention & Remembrance event on Friday, August 28th, in recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day.
It will be an evening of public awareness and education to help reduce the stigma of those who struggle with this health challenge.
It will also be an opportunity to gather for a continued call for action to address this crisis and a meaningful Vigil to honor and remember loved ones that we have lost.
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Education, Awareness & Support
Free Naloxone Training & Kit Distribution
Flags of Hope
Candlelight Memorial Vigil
Light Tribute
FREE EVENT, Everyone Welcome
“We Fight for Those We Love and Lost”
Lethbridge
Alberta
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: Location: Lethbridge City Hall . 910 – 4 Avenue South.Lethbridge, Alberta
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Moms Stop The Harm
Contact: Lori Hatfield
Phone: 403-894-0901
Email: lorihatfield@gmail.com
On August 31, the people of Lethbridge will come together from 5 to 8 pm at City Hall. They will be mourning the deaths of Albertans from all walks of life due to drug overdose. They will also mourn the loss of the ARCHES Supervised Consumption Site which is closing at 4:30 pm on August 31. This event will be a somber but peaceful rally and will include a “Die-In” in front of City Hall followed by a candlelight vigil walk from City Hall to ARCHES and back.
This event is organized by concerned Albertans including employees of ARCHES, persons with lived experience, volunteers with Moms Stop The Harm and has the support of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, the Raging Grannies and Friends of Medicare.
Manitoba
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: Stephen Juba Park, Winnipeg
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Overdose Awareness Manitoba
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Flags of hope will be on display while advocating for an unscheduling of naloxone, which can reverse the affects of an opioid overdose, during an International Overdose Awareness Day gathering at Stephen Juba Park in Winnipeg
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: Rite Downtown Garden Center, Medicine Hat
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Medicine Hat Drug Coaltion
Contact: Krista Worobec
Phone:
Email:
The Medicine Hat Drug Coalition will be hosting a come and go vigil in downtown Medicine Hat. Join us from 5 – 9 pm on August 31. We will have our flags of hope on display as well as luminaries available for people to leave messages to loved ones. On display will be all the luminaries from past events as well. From August 28 until Sept 4 the Medicine Hat teepee will be lit up in purple lights as well to raise awareness about this day. This event is open to the public and we hope to see you there.
Mission City
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 04:00 pm
Location: First Avenue in Mission BC
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Mission Overdose Community Action Team
Contact: Kat Wahamaa
Phone: 604-679-4463
Email: stopoverdosemission@gmail.com
Throughout August, leading up to International Overdose Awareness Day, August 31, the Mission Overdose Community Action Team (MOCAT) is coordinating a series of community art dialogues entitled“Masks We Wear”. Stigma masks the humanity of people who use substances and sways our current policy. Our communities are devastated by the ensuing loss of loved ones, and the loss of the potential of all the sons, daughters, mothers and fathers. The masks will be exhibited during the week of International Overdose Awareness Day – August 31, at businesses on First Avenue in Mission and then displayed in the Community Art Space at The Reach Gallery Museum as part of their fall exhibition. On August 31 community members are invited to take an “artwalk” from 3-7pm downtown. A memorial banner will be onsite for those that wish to add their loved ones name in remembrance.
Mississauga
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 07:30 pm
Location: The Port Credit Light House – 105 Lakeshore Road W, Mississauga ON
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Christine
Phone: 4169986930
Email: christineninrig@hotmail.com
August 31, 2020 – International Overdose Awareness Day! 💜
Please join us at the PORT CREDIT LIGHTHOUSE for a small, social distancing ceremony as it will be coloured purple in honour and recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day.
The small ceremony will be used to honour and pay respect to our loved ones that we’ve lost to the Opioid Epidemic, to raise awareness and to put an end to the stigma!
Please feel free to bring a picture of your loved one, to light a candle, bring a flower or wear purple in support of IOAD.
Moncton
New Brunswick
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location: 80 Weldon Street, Moncton, NB
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: ENSEMBLE Services Greater Moncton
Contact: Sarah Doiron
Phone: (506)859-9616
Email: sdoiron@ensemblegm.ca
ENSEMBLE Services Greater Moncton, in partnership with John Howard Society of Southeastern New Brunswick, will be hosting an event on Monday, August 31st from 1-3pm at ENSEMBLE, located at 80 Weldon St. in Moncton.
International Overdose Awareness Day is a day to come together and to remember those lost to overdose. There will be purple memorial ribbons displayed to honour loved ones lost. For anyone wishing to include the name of a loved one, they can contact us at 859-9616, by email at general@ensemblegm.ca, or through ENSEMBLE’s facebook page.
We will also be having a BBQ at that time and we will have harm reduction resources available, as well as naloxone training & naloxone kits.
Nanaimo
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Last year held at Maffeo Sutton Park
100 Comox Rd, Nanaimo, BC V9R 3H7
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Wisteria Community Association
Contact: Tanya Hiltz
Phone: 2505916443
Email: wisteriacommunityass@shaw.ca
This year due to Covid-19 we are building a Memorial Garden to all lost.
We have 100 hearts and we are collecting names to add, then place on the fence.
Building a rock monument with a water fountain and planted flowers so they grow year round and few other items. Will do 2 Candle Light ups at 6 PM and 8 PM to give everyone a chance to visit. Can be seen from Milton Street.
Nanaimo
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 04:00 pm
Location: •Performance of LifeLine will take place at 4pm and at 6pm at the corner of Wesley Street and Fitzwilliam, Nanaimo, BC, at Standing Figure Sculpture by Troy Moth.Also from 4pm to 6pm:
•Naloxone Use Training Table by AVI Health Centre Nanaimo
•other events and arts installations will take place at Wesley Street and Franklyn produced by The Community Action Team, Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Health Centre, Open Heart Collaborative, Wisteria Association, Tree of Life Project by Peers from the Nanaimo chapter of BC YukonDrug War Survivors
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Crimson Coast Dance Society
Contact: Holly Bright
Phone: 250-716-3230
Email: dance@crimsoncoast.org
LifeLine
A contemporary dance performance by Genevieve Johnson
Dramaturgy by Holly Bright
Score by Genevieve Johnson (poetry) and Sofina Johnson (composition)
Produced by Crimson Coast Dance Society with support from CAT, Community Action Team
August 31, 4pm and 6:00pm
Wesley Street at Fitzwilliam – at the Standing Figure Sculpture across from St. Andrew’s Church (Sculpture by Troy Moth)
LifeLine is a reflection on the crisis of addiction both as a society and in one’s personal life and intends to reflect compassionate understanding for the addict’s choices while recognizing the desire and the gravitas associated with the choice to use.
~the fifth stanza of the accompanying poem by Genevieve Johnson:
Freedom
Un-perfecting until calm
Meandering around corners
With patience
Scoping the inner land
without judgment
landscapes under skin pulsing
fault lines gaps wounds: all doors to new territories
Being different as sacred
Are we alright?
the child within
is
an
oak walking
fractal self
becoming Arbutus
facing all winds
Standing Figure Sculpture: Troy Moth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXF1oQ7cUJA&feature
Napanee
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Brenda Vale
Phone: 6132428532
Email: Roblinwescr@gmail.com
I will use social media to invite people from my community and surrounding areas (a 50 km circle) to post tributes of lost loved ones.
I will post facts to promote the event and awareness.
I will do a Facebook live or prerecorded video on August 31st to pay tribute to those recognized by loved ones.
Next year I hope to have a physical gathering.
Nelson
BC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Nelson BC
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: ANKORS
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Vigil held in Nelson to mark International Overdose Awareness Day.
On Monday, ANKORS set up 175 empty pairs of shoes to symbolize the July deaths as well as a coffin built by ANKORS staff member Alex Sherstobitoff in the parking lot outside its office at 101 Baker St. A candlelight vigil was also later held at Cottonwood Park.
New Westminster
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia Street, New Westminter
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: New Westminster Overdose Community Action Team
Contact: Courtney Pankratz
Phone: 604-562-5102
Email: courtney.pankratz@purposesociety.org
New Westminster Overdose Memorial to commemorate the many lives that have been lost to the overdose crisis. Submissions of photos, art, and poetry have been assembled into a collage and will be on display at the Anvil Centre between August 31 and September 5.
New Westminster
Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: 511 Royal Ave, New Westminster, BC V3L 1H9
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Courtney Pankratz
Phone: 6045625102
Email: courtney.pankratz@purposesociety.org
The City of New Westminster will be lighting up City Hall in purple on August 30 – 31 to honour the many lives that have been lost to the overdose crisis.
Niagara Falls
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 pm
Location: The Falls on Niagara Parkway
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Positive Living Niagara
Contact: Claire
Phone: 905-984-8684 ext 141
Email: claurie@positivelivingniagara.com
Due to COVID-19 there will be official public gathering, however The Falls will be lit up purple at 10:00pm on August 31st for a 15 minute period, in memory of those who have passed from an overdose. We invite friends and family to go down to the Falls to view the illumination, in socially distant groups.
North Bay
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Sponsored by Community Counselling Centre of Nipissing, North Bay and Parry Sound District Health Unit, AIDS Committee of North Bay and Area, and hosted along with Nipissing First Nation, Ontario Addiction Treatment Centre, Nipissing Mental Health Housing and Support Services and Community Drug Strategy North Bay and Area
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: North Bay Area Drug Strategy Committee
Contact: Katharine O’Connell
Phone:
Email: harmreductionpillarcdsnb@outlook.com
4th Annual International Overdose Awareness Day *Virtual* Week of Events
Monday August 31, 2020 @11-12pm–Online Opening Ceremonies
Wednesday September 2, 2020 @2-2:30pm—Online Methamphetamine 101 Information Webinar
Thursday September 3, 2020 @ 9-10:30am—Online Naloxone Training
Friday September 4, 2020 at 10-11am—Live Facebook Feed of Memorial Flower Planting
Other events include Free swag, snack bags and harm reduction supplies available, and overdose awareness garden memorial
Register for events and get more details at www.myhealthunit.ca/overdoseawareness or email harmreductionpillarcdsnb@outlook.com
Nova Scotia
Windsor
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Water Street to Victoria Park, Windsor
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
A group of about 60 people- firefighters, paramedics and RCMP officers attended an international opioid overdose awareness day march and vigil.
Amanda Hudson, the Nova Scotia take home naloxone program coordinator, was a guest speaker and provided the crowd with facts and figures about overdoses in the province.
Naloxone training in Victoria Park
Online/Digital
BC
Date: 06/07/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: On-line Event – open to everyone, everywhere
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Year
Contact: Sandra Tully
Phone: 250 320 1015
Email: sltully99@gmail.com
On-line Pledge Campaign to End Stigma – open to everyone, everywhere
For individuals and families impacted by substance use, stigma is an ever-present reality that results in discrimination, reluctance to access treatments and supports and contributes to overdoses. We can end stigma just through our language.
Words have power.
Consider the language you use when talking about someone who uses substances and use person-first and recovery-oriented language instead. Together, we can end the harm caused by stigmatizing language.
Join us in taking the pledge, then use the selfie cards to promote action and bring awareness.
www.addictionmatters.ca
Orangeville
Ontario
Date: 27/08/2020
Time: 05:30 pm
Location: Edelbrock Centre
30 Centre St. Orangeville, ON
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Dufferin Overdose Awareness Committee
Contact: kristy@familytransitionplace.ca
Phone:
Email:
Free BBQ and health fair.
Come out to learn about all the addiction services offered throughout Dufferin County.
Orilla
Ontario
Date: 01/09/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: General Headquarters: 777 Memorial Ave. Orillia, Ontario L3V 7V3
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Ontario Provincial Police
Contact: Ontario Provincial Police
Phone:
Email:
This year, the Ontario Provincial Police is marking International Overdose Awareness Day with a community safety educaiton video highlightoing the impact overdose is having on the community, reminding citizens of the legal protection the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act (GSDOA) and encouraging citizens to call 911 in the case of overdoses and emergencies.
Ottawa
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:30 am
Location: Human Rights Monument – Elgin Street
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Sandy Hill Community Health Centre
Contact: Stefan Amyotte
Phone: 613-325-7949
Email: samyotte@sandyhillchc.on.ca
National Overdose Awareness day is an eventheld every year to commemorate those who have passed due to addictions and those who suffer from addictions. It is an hour long ceremony with guest speakers discussing the challenges faced by those affected by addictions and a call out for broader support in terms of drug policy’s in our communities.
Peterborough
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: City Hall 500 George St
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Brad’s Bears
Contact: Lori
Phone:
Email: bradsbearsptbo@gmail.com
On August 31st 2020 (International Overdose Awareness Day) we will be building a powerful display to showcase the severity of overdose in our community and raise awareness.
We will be at City Hall at 9:00 am to set up the display. We encourage you to bring down items (pictures of your loved ones, items that belonged to them etc) to add to our display between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm. The more personal touches we can add the more impactful the display will be
.
We will be on site from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm. We have International Overdose Awareness Day bracelets and pins to hand out as well as a wealth of resources and educational information to share. We look forward to seeing new faces and reconnecting with those we have met in the past. We are here to hear your story, come down and tell us about your loved ones and the impact overdose has had on your life. We are a safe place and EVERYONE is welcome. We believe everyone deserves an opportunity to be heard and every story matters. From 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm we invite local media and local government representatives to join us. (we ask they join us in the afternoon so the display will be fully set up with your personal touches)
If you are unable to see us in person please join our online event
https://www.facebook.com/events/290328125393066/
We are pleased to say Peterborough Aids Resource Network (PARN) will be joining us and co-hosting this event. PARN brings with them the experience of fighting the opioid crisis on the front lines as well as deep understanding of harm reduction practices.
COVID – 19 Protocol: Please keep in mind the social distancing rules. We will be outside so masks will not be mandatory, however we do encourage them. We will have some masks available for anyone unable to bring their own. We will be respectful of social distancing and kindly ask you to wait your turn to visit with us and/or place items at the display.
Peterborough
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:08 pm
Location: Silver Bean Millenium Park Peterborough Ontario
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Gail
Phone:
Email: littlegail@live.ca
We are having speakers about harm reduction…speakers on recovery and will be showing a video of all of our loved ones that have passed and each family member will be asked to come up and speak about their loved one. We will also have naloxone training.
Powell River
BC
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: 6460 King Ave
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Darlana L Treloar
Phone: 6044839059
Email: darlana.treloar@gmail.com
This year will be different..Because of Covid we are not gathering..I am creating a visual here in Powell River..Our City Hall will light up purple and will fly the flag at halfmast..im having a Purple IOAD flag made. we will ask businesses and residents to light up Purple for AUgust 31st..I will also be putting purple ribbons and faces on trees and poles on our busiest street as well as people displaying ribbons and faces at their own homes
Quesnel
B.C.
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: #3- 445 Anderson Dr.
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Coalition of Substance Users of the North (CSUN)
Contact: Charlene Burmeister
Phone: (250) 255-5868
Email: openingdoorstoharmreduction@gmail.com
Hosting a public awareness campaign in community.
Quesnel
BC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: 2788Nazko Highway
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: WildWomen of the North Society
Contact: Willow Giesinger
Phone: 1(250)925-1060
Email: wildwomenofthenorth@gmail.com
we rent the park downtown and host a memorial BBQ to honour those who have lost their lives to overdose. last year we had traditional dancers and drumming and a local rap artist to entertain while service providers showcased their services and we did naloxone training. This year is the same event but we are also hosting a drug users meeting on the same day so people with lived experience can share their experiences. We have lost many people in our community due to lack of services or lack of continuity in services and feel that a large call out for feed back is important to feed into our advocacy efforts.
Regina
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:30 pm
Location: Legislative Grounds (on lawn by Legislature)
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Saskatchewan Health Authority, AIDS Program South Saskatchewan, All Nations Hope Network, Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, John Howard Society and more
Contact: Ronni Nordal
Phone: 309-522-3995
Email: ronni@nordallaw.ca
There seems to be no need to raise awareness that overdoses happen – as we are in the midst of an overdose crisis. There is a need to raise awareness that lives do not need to be lost to overdose and there is much that can be done to prevent overdose.
Join us to remember and prevent.
COVID-19 precautions will be in place – physical distancing and masks encouraged, hand sanitizer and wipes will be available.
Greetings
Speakers including those with lived experience
Recognition of lives lost and of the hope that loss of more lives can be prevented
Naloxone training and kits available
Awareness tables
Resource bags (non-perishable food and personal items) available
Regina
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Mamaweyatitan Centre (outside library)
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Saskatchewan Health Authority, AIDS Program South Saskatchewan, All Nations Hope Network, Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, John Howard Society and more
Contact: Jody Oakes
Phone: 306-631-4168
Email: joakes@sk.johnhoward.ca
There seems to be no need to raise awareness that overdoses happen – as we are in the midst of an overdose crisis. There is a need to raise awareness that live do not need to be lost to overdose and there is much that can be done to prevent overdose.
Join us to remember and to prevent.
COVID-19 precautions will be in place – physical distancing and masks encouraged, hand sanitizer and wipes will be available.
Greetings
Speakers including those with lived experience
Recognition of lives lost and of the hope that loss of more lives can be prevented
Naloxone training and kits available
Awareness tables
Resource bags (non-perishable food and personal items) available
Regina
Saskatchewan
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Albert Street Memorial Bridge
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
hanging purple ribbons with the names of people who have died from overdoses on the Albert Street Memorial Bridge in Regina.
Saint-Jérôme
QC
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: 527 rue Saint-Georges, Saint-Jérôme QC J7Z 5B6
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Centre Sida Amitié
Contact: Janie Ducharme
Phone: 450-431-7432
Email: coordo@csalaurentides.com
Fête estivale extérieure sous la thématique de prévention des surdoses avec animation, musique, présentation du CSA, création collective, collations et breuvages, distribution de matériel stérile de consommation et de prévention ITSS, formation Naloxone et plus!
Sarnia
ON-Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: 118 Victoria St. North
Sarnia, ON
N7T 5W9
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: BMC PHARMACY
Contact: Marcel Laporte
Phone: 5193379900
Email: staff.bmcsarnia01@gmail.com
– Naloxone Training
– Overdose Education
– Mural Painting in Honour of Loved Ones
Saskatchewan
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email: 31/8/2020
Saskatchewan families advocate for urgent solutions to overdose crisis.
On Monday, families of Regina gather to mark International Overdose Awareness Day at the mâmawêyatitân centre and outside the legislative building.
Sault Ste. Marie
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: Starting at middle of boardwalk parking at Galaxy Cinema. Then walking down to 2nd block of Gore St. for food and refreshments.
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Save Our Young Adults
Contact: Connie Raynor-Elliot
Phone:
Email: soyasaves2009@gmail.com
Taking place starting on the boadwalk @ 5pm we will have a cermony for those who wish to write something on a rock and release it into the St. Mary\s River. from there we will proceed down to Gore St. where we will have a bbq with refreshments, freiends and family. Pictures and posters most welcome.
Sault Ste. Marie
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Clergue Park
Bay St & East St, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Addiction and Mental Health Advocates
Contact: Donna DeSimon
Phone:
Email: soassmchapter1010@gmail.com
Dozens of people congregated at Clergue Park Monday afternoon to remember lives lost to overdose.
The memorial walk, organised by the relatively new peer support group Addiction and Mental Health Advocates, was held in concert with International Overdose Awareness Day events taking place throughout the world Monday.
Stettler
Alberta
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:30 am
Location: 4720 50th Street Stettler
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Stettler & District Family & Community Support Services
Contact: Andrea Lee
Phone: 4037422337
Email: andrea.lee@stettlercsc.ca
We would like to host an Overdose Awareness Day the Stettler & District Family & Community Support Services office on August 31st, 2020. We are going to have information and education pamphlets. Onsite Naloxone training, Candle lighting, Survivors support group, and purple ribbons.
Surrey
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: Holland Park
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Surrey Overdose Response Community Action Team
Contact: Sukh Shergill
Phone: 604 351 3282
Email: sukh@dialoguesinaction.com
The Kwantlen First Nation will lead us in a welcoming ceremony followed by drumming meant to support healing. The Salvation Army will provide packaged meals. Naloxone training will be provided. It will be time to connect in solidarity while being socially distanced.
Sydney
Nova Scotia
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Wentworth Park, Sydney, Nova Scotia
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: The Ally Centre of Cape Breton
Contact: Natasha Rowe
Phone: 19025743342
Email: natasha.rowe@bellaliant.com
We will be marching from our centre at 150 Bentinck Street in Sydney, Nova Scotia, to Wentworth Park. We will have indigenous drummers leading our march. During our event we will have many first voice speakers, drumming and singing, and reading of names of people who have passed due to the overdose crisis. We will follow the reading of names with a moment of silence and smudging.
Timiskaming
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 am
Location: Timiskaming
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Timiskaming Health Unit
Contact: Kim Peters
Phone:
Email:
Education and awareness (social media, print media, email blast, promoting the purple theme)
Naloxone distribution and training
Sharing professional development resources with community partners and workplaces related to stigma and overdose
Municipal proclamations
Encouraging people to share their stories of loved one lost to overdose
Supporting and promoting related community partner events
Timmins
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: 169 Pine St S, Timmins, ON P4N 2K3, Canada
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Porcupine Health Unit
Contact: Christianne Blain
Phone:
Email:
Today, International Overdose Awareness Day, the Porcupine Health Unit, supported by the Timmins and Area Drug Strategy, unveiled a new mural in downtown Timmins. International Overdose Awareness Day commemorates those affected by overdose and gives an opportunity for communities to mourn loved ones and speak about them with pride.
Toronto
ON
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 am
Location: Will take place online.
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Twentytwenty Arts
Contact: Megan Kee
Phone: 6472876843
Email: megan@twentytwentyarts.com
Weathered is a digital photography exhibition & fundraising campaign raising awareness for overdose death.
Weathered is asking families to produce memorialized photographs of shoes and mementos belonging to loved ones who have lost their lives to an overdose. Weathered sets out to raise awareness for overdose death and funds for Street Health’s Overdose Prevention Site.
All photograph submissions will be accepted (June 1st – July 6th, 2020). We encourage everyone, regardless of skill level, to submit a memorialized photograph with a written description about their loved one.
All photographs, stories, videos, and content will be shared on Overdose Awareness Day (August 31st, 2020).
Additional details about the campaign can be found here: https://www.twentytwentyarts.com/weathered
Toronto
Date: 3/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: CN Tower, Toronto at Roundhouse Park south of the base of the CN Tower
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Flags of Hope Toronto
Contact: Flags of Hope Toronto
Phone:
Email: flagsofhopetoronto@gmail.com
CN Tower will be lit purple on August 31st and Mayor John Tory will present a proclamation for Overdose Awareness Day in Toronto
Toronto
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 03:30 pm
Location: Allen Gardens
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: The As We Mourn Collective
Contact: Sara
Phone:
Email: thralliance@gmail.com
A gathering that centres the power of art and solidarity as a path to healing, while highlighting and advocating for what will ensure our dignity and quality of life. Activities will include patch-making for our community quilt, a speaker’s corner and food.
Toronto
ON
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: 11am Flag Raising at Toronto City Hall, Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. Toronto ON8pm Candelight Vigil at Roundhouse Park, 255 Bremner Blvd, just south of the base of the CN Tower
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Moms Stop the Harm & Families for Addiction Recovery
Contact: Irene Paterson. (MSTH) Angie. Hamilton. (FAR)
Phone: 647-308-0773. 416-559-5308
Email: flagsofhopetoronto@gmail.com
Irene (Moms Stop the Harm) and Angie (Famillies for Addiction Recovery) invite you join this global movement for Understanding, Compassion, Awareness and Change
Overdose Awareness Day, Aug. 31st
EVENTS:
• Mayor John Tory will proclaim Overdose Awareness Day in Toronto on Monday 8/31
• 11am ~ The Mayor will raise the International Overdose Awareness Day Flag at Toronto City Hall.
The podium flag deck is closed to the public. The Flag Raising can be viewed from Nathan Phillips Square.
• 8pm ~ Toronto’s iconic CN TOWER will illuminate PURPLE at dusk on Aug. 31st for Overdose Awareness Day.
A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL will be held at Roundhouse Park to honour our loved ones.
Toronto
Ontario
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: Trinity Bellwood’s Park, Toronto
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: FRAEM Foundation
Contact: Jason Newman
Phone: (519) 652-5558
Email: info@administeremergencymedicines.com
Free Naloxone training and moment of peace for those who lost their lives to the opioid crisis.
Truro
Nova Scotia
Date: 29/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Farmer’s Market on Prince Street, Truro, N.S.
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Northern Healthy Connections Society
Contact: Alana Weatherbee
Phone: 902-895-0931
Email: support@nhcsociety.ca
Display Table providing awareness material about the mandate of the organization, awareness of the intention behind a harm reduction approach, information regarding priority populations vulnerable to mental health/addictions and injection drug use such as the LGBTQ community, people in conflict with the law, individuals who are homeless, etc.
Naloxone Program promoted and training and kits provided.
Vancouver
BC
Date: 27/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: 1835 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC
V5L 1T3, Canada
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Dignity Memorial Funeral Providers
Contact: Nicole Webb
Phone: 604-536-6522
Email: loc3745@dignitymemorial.com
Virtual candlelight memorial service in recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day.
Vancouver
BC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Main and Hastings streets
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
In honour of Overdose Awareness Day, a rally is taking place near Vancouver’s Main and Hastings streets
VANCOUVER
BC
Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 06:00 am
Location: 1. West Pedestrian Walk way of the Burrard Street Bridge
2. Digital billboard on Pender and Abbott
3. Telus Science World, BC Place and Vancouver City Hall
4. Live Stream Vigilon August 31- 7PM MSTH public facebook
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Moms Stop the Harm
Contact: DEB BAILEY
Phone: 6049700416
Email: dhbailey@telus.net
1. West Pedestrian Walk way of the Burrard Street Bridge- To represent the number of people we in BC have lost in BC in the months of May, June and July, we will be attaching shoes to the walkway, along with tags where people can dedicate the shoes in memory of someone if they choose. Shoes go up on August 30 in the early am and will be taken down Sept 1. All shoes will be donated to various sites in the DTES.
2. Digital billboard on Pender and Abbott- ulready up and running, there is a digital billboard featuring the faces of loved ones lost to overdose. The billboard will run until Sept 7, 2020
3. So far Telus Science World, BC Place and Vancouver City Hall will light up in purple lights on the evening of August 31, 2020
4.. A memorial vigil will be livestreamed on Mom’s Stop the Harm public Face book site. Bonnie Henry will be one of the spekader
Vancouver
Date: 26/08/2020
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: 312 Main
312 main st (entrance on Cordova)
Vancouver
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: La Boussole – Centre Communautaire Francophone
Contact: Maxime
Phone:
Email: laboussole@lbv.ca
Training on OD response and naloxone administration in French
Limited number of participants.
Vancouver
Bc
Date: 22/08/2020
Time: 04:00 pm
Location: Crab park Vancouver bc
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Brooke
Phone: 6049618765
Email: Killerpink@hotmail.ca
Volleyball, badminton, bingo, barbecue, potluck? Hot dogs hamburgers, chips, popsychology, juice, water and hopefully a small fire on the beachfront if the fire department approves it
Vancouver
BC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Akash Sidhu
Phone: 6042907542
Email: akash.sidhu@phsa.ca
Dear Project Partners,
The Provincial Perinatal Substance Use Project is proud to present a webinar in honour of Overdose Awareness day. This webinar will be hosted by Dr. Annabel Mead, Director of the St. Paul’s Hospital Goldcorp Addiction Medicine Fellowship with the BC Centre on Substance Use.
On August 31st at 12:00pm we invite you to join us to remember the lives lost and learn how best to move forward. Register here: https://mediasite.phsa.ca/Mediasite/Play/dcaae6baa1ac4667ac19c55f73e8ffd01d
You will learn:
• How COVID19 has impacted our communities and the overdose health care emergency at large.
• About the communities and populations who have experienced the greatest losses.
• What we as carers and professionals can do to reverse the growing number of cases and overdose deaths.
Who should attend:
• Service providers (including physicians, clinicians) who work with people who may be impacted by substance use and those from difficult realties.
A link to the recording will be available following the session live session.
Presenters:
Dr. Annabel Mead, MBBS, is Director of the St. Paul’s Hospital Goldcorp Addiction Medicine Fellowship with the BC Centre on Substance Use. Her primary research interests and expertise include trauma-informed care, prevention and early intervention in substance-using populations, and safe and effective clinical management of opioid addiction and/or chronic pain in urban health settings and among vulnerable populations. Over the span of her medical career, Dr. Mead has developed clinical expertise in addiction medicine, complex pain management, concurrent psychiatric disorders, and women’s health, with a consistent focus on integrating teaching activities that foster excellence in clinical practice, leadership, research, and advocacy within the next generation of healthcare professionals. She has been involved in the design and implementation of medical education curricula in a range of practice settings and topic areas, including clinical management of sexual assault, safe opioid agonist prescribing, psychosocial interventions for substance misuse, and complex pain conditions.
Dr. Charissa Patricelli is the Medical Director of the Families in Recovery (FIR) Combined Care Unit at BC Women’s Hospital. She is a family physician specialized in addiction medicine and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice at UBC. Originally from Northern Canada, her first career was in nursing, neonatology and pediatrics taking her to the southern US and outpost nursing stations throughout BC. Since earning her MD from UBC, she has worked in general practice, with street youth in Vancouver, in perinatal consult services at BC Women’s Hospital, the Addiction Medicine Consult Service at Royal Columbian Hospital, the Maxxine Wright Community Health Centre for women and children affected by substance use or violence, and opioid replacement clinics. She has also served as the physician lead for the Community Birth Program in Surrey, a collaborative maternity care program with midwives, physicians, doulas and nursing.
Panelists:
Hawkfeather Peterson, Advocate; Person with Lived Experience
Dr. Carolyn Marchand, BCCSU Addiction Medicine Fellow
Dr. Tosh Mizzau, BCCSU Addiction Medicine Fellow
Vancouver
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: David Carrigg
Phone:
Email:
Volunteers used purple ribbons to tie hundreds of pairs of shoes to the railing of the Burrard Bridge on Sunday morning, in preparation for International Overdose Awareness Day.
Each pair had a small note attached to them, highlighting the thousands of British Columbians who have died from overdose since a public health emergency was declared in 2016.
Vancouver
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Carnegie Community Centre
401 Main Street, at the corner of Hastings Street, in the old Carnegie Public Library building in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Overdose Prevention Society
Contact: Sarah Blyth
Phone:
Email: blyth2008@gmail.com
A memorial mural was unveiled Monday in front of the Carnegie Community Centre, to enable families and friends of people who have passed away from an overdose to have a public way to show grief and honour their loved ones.
The mural has been designed by local artist Smokey D, and also features a blank space for anyone to write the names of their own loved ones.
Vancouver
BC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
Drums will be playing during a memorial to remember overdose victims in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Aug. 31, 2020. People will take part in a memorial event in Vancouver to commemorate their beloved ones who died from drug overdose on the International Overdose Awareness Day, which is a global event held on August 31 each year that aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of drug-related death.
Victoria
British Columbia
Date: 01/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: South Island Community Overdose Response Network
Contact: Jennifer Howard
Phone: 250-889-5926
Email: ioadyyj@gmail.com
Due to Covid 19 restrictions we will be unable to host our public event. However, our committee is committed to recognizing this important day and we have the following activities planned:
*August 31st – Facebook Live Candlelight Vigil “Words and Music of Remembrance”
*In the month leading up to August 31st – social media/on line petition calling for “Decriminalization”
*signage leading into the city acknowledging IOAD
*Display table set up at our main hospital with educational/resource information
*Moms Stop The Harm – “Tie A Purple Ribbon” Campaign promotion via social media
Victoria
BC
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: 501 Belleville St
Victoria BC
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact:
Phone:
Email:
On Monday night, in recognition of Overdose Awareness Day, the B.C. legislature building will be lit with purple lights. There will also be an online vigil to remember those who have lost their lives to the overdose crisis.
Waterloo
Ontario
Date: 02/09/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Luke Schulz
Phone:
Email:
WRIDS virtual panel
White Rock
British Columbia
Date: 19/08/2020
Time: 04:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Matthew Huot
Phone:
Email: mhuot@sourcesbc.ca
A motorcade hosted by WRSS Community Action Team, the city of White Rock, and White Rock First Responders.
The group will meet and proceed from the White Rock Centennial Arena parking lot to City Hally.
(Covid /social distancing protocol)
White Rock
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 04:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Matthew Huot
Phone:
Email: mhuot@sourcesbc.ca
Hosted by the WRSS Community Action Team. We will be raising a purple flag at White Rock City Hall to honor everyone impacted by the overdose crisis. We all also have a display of crosses to honor those who have lost their life as a result of overdose.
(Covid /social distancing protocol)
White Rock
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:30 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Matthew Huot
Phone:
Email: mhuot@sourcesbc.ca
Hosted by WRSS Community Action Team in coordination with the City of White Rock. At sundown on August 31st we will have the lights at the White Rock Pier changed to purple to honor everyone impacted by the overdose crisis.
We will also have a booth set up beside the pier handing out harm reduction information and materials.
Whitehorse
Yukon
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: 405 Ogilvie st
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Blood Ties Four Directions Centre
Contact: Elizabeth Plishka
Phone: 3063716250
Email: education@bloodties.ca
We will be hosting naloxone training throughout the entire week.
Monday – Blood Ties
Tuesday – during Drug User Group
Wednesday – TBD
Thursday – Fireweed Market
Friday – Whitehorse Emergency Shelter
Williams Lake
British Columbia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 am
Location: Outside the Salvation Army
272 Borland Street
Williams Lake, BC
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Cariboo Action Team
Contact: Lyn
Phone: 250-3052-5009
Email:
The Williams Lake Boys & Girls Club, TNG, Interior Health and the Salvation Army are hosting a community information session for Overdose Awareness. Naloxone training and demonstrations (including nasal Naloxone) and information about harm reduction, including Take Home Drug Testing strips and the new Lifeguard app will be available. Naloxone kits available.
Please practice social distancing.
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 12:00 am
Location: Pioneer Arena
799 Logan Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J9, Canada
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Freedom Quest Youth Services
Contact: Matthew McClelland
Phone:
Email:
Health officials outside Pioneer Arena in Castlegar trained residents how to use a naloxone kit during an emergency.
Costa Rica
Distrito 1er
Santa Cruz
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 pm
Location: Guanacaste
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: LPSD COSTA RICA
Contact: Alfredo Catania
Phone: 506 85249236
Email: alfredocatania@yahoo.it
Generalities about 1 st AIDS in OD and secure use of drugs
Cote D'Ivoire
Abidjan
Abidjan
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:10 am
Location: Cocody Vallons, Résidence Valérie, Bat B, RDC
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: UNICO
Contact: 00 225 58313495
Phone:
Email: unico.siege@gmail.com
Round table with press
Cyprus
Nicosia
None
Date: 01/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: 35 Iosif Hadjiosif and Andreas Avraamides
1st Floor, 2028 Strovolos
Nicosia
CYPRUS
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Cyprus National Authority Against Addictions (NAAC)
Contact: Byron Jack Gaist
Phone: +3572244976
Email: b.gaist@cytanet.com.cy
NAAC will run a media campaign which includes a harm reduction theme throughout August 2020, culminating in online dissemination (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, NAAC Website) of the IOAD materials in Greek, on August 31st.
Denmark
Copenhagen
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: Danish Parliament government building Christiansborg Slotsplads (15.00-17.00)Drug User Organisation Lygten 11, 1. floor 2400 Copenhagen.
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Antidote Denmark
Contact: Michael Lodberg Olsen
Phone: +45 2585 2485
Email: mlo@antidote.dk
DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE DANISH PARLIAMENT AT CHRISTIANSBORG CASTLE SQUARE
Demonstration of solutions that can reduce overdose mortality: Fixerum (SIF)) and Take Home Naloxone.
YOU CAN STOP OVERDOSE DEATH.
Education and free Antidote
Organizer:
DrugUser Organization: Brugerforeningen and Brugernes akademi.
Gadejuristen (Street lawyers) and Antidote Danmark (Take Home Naloxone NGO).
France
Forbach
Mosell
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: Place Robert Schumann 57600 Forbach
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: CSAPA & CAARUD “Les Wads” – CMSEA
Contact: Lionel DIENY
Phone: 0688413436
Email: lionel.dieny@cmsea.asso.fr
Venez échanger avec nous pour :
– comprendre l’overdose et l’éviter
– récupérer un kit de Naloxone
Metz
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: 26 rue du Wad Billy 57000 Metz
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: CSAPA & CAARUD “Les Wads” – CMSEA
Contact: Lionel DIENY
Phone: 0688413436
Email: lionel.dieny@cmsea.asso.fr
Une après midi entre femmes pour en finir avec l’Overdose !
Paris
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 04:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Association Federation Addiction
Contact: Juliette Dupuis
Phone:
Email:
Federation Addiction organise a webinar on opioid overdose prevention, during the International Overdose Prevention Day.
Opioids are the leading cause of death by overdose in France, and their uses concern a large number of people, sometimes suffering from chronic diseases and presenting vulnerabilities to an opioid overdose.
In this context, it is necessary to strengthen access to Naloxone for users at risk of opioid overdose, whether they are dependent or in pain. But also inform and train those around them and the health professionals concerned.
An opioid receptor antagonist, Naloxone is an effective, safe and relatively easy-to-use health product for the prevention and treatment of potentially fatal opioid overdoses. This effectiveness is increased when it is combined with clear information and, at best, first aid training for users, their entourage and professionals : the public who are on the front line during an overdose.
Federation Addiction is engaged in an inter-associative dynamic with a lot of other associations and partners, to develop the tools and training programs necessary to make the best use of these RDR tools and communication tools.
The objective of the webinar is to present the various works produced by the inter-associative group but also to answer various questions on opioid overdoses and naloxone such as:
what is an opioid?
what is an opioid overdose?
what are the risk factors?
what is naloxone
where to find the naloxone kits? how to get it?
what risk reduction advice
Germany
Berlin
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 03:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: #mybrainmychoice Initiative
Contact: Philine
Phone:
Email: philine@mybrainmychoice.de
We will do an artwork with chalk in a public and highly frequented public place in Berlin to raise awareness for harm reduction stategies to prevent overdose. Bypassers will get flyers and a link to a page on our website with further information. Photos of the artwork and the weblink will be shared on our social media channels. This event will be embedded into our current national campaign that demands from the drug commissioner to engage an independet comission of drug policy experts (change.org/neue-drogenpolitik).
Greece
Athens
Attica
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:30 pm
Location: Ionis hotel
Homeless shelter in Athens
ΤΕΛΟΤΕΛ ΕΠΕ – ΞΕΝΟΔΟΧΕΙΟ ΙΟΝΙΣ
Χαλκοκονδύλη 41, Αθήνα 104 32
21 0523 2311
https://goo.gl/maps/bjx7VuvNnjnhWQ6J8
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: PeerNUPS
Contact: Christos Anastasiou
Phone: +30 6995287655
Email: peernups@gmail.com
Small gathering in the shelter with trainings About Naloxone. for the stuff and the homeless
Flyers About overdose , Black balloons,and discuss with other stakeholders
Athens
Attika
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: Soultani 11, Athens (venue’s name: ‘Giousouroum’)
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: STEPS NON PROFIT
Contact: Emmanouela Soldatou
Phone:
Email: soldatou@steps.org.gr
Painkiller: Inside the Opioid Crisis will be for the first time screened with Greek subtitles. After the screening, an open discussion will be held with the interested parties.
Guam
Barrigada
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 am
Location: Facebook and Instagram
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Guam National Guard
Contact: Rachel Perez
Phone: 671-344-1281
Email: rachel.perez@dystech.com
The Guam National Guard supports International Overdose Awareness Day in helping our community to #EndOverdose by spreading this message to its members and families. We will share IOAD factsheet posters on our social media and provide IOAD history and mission as well as the website link for more information. Its our first year participating and we look forward to building our activities annually! Time to remember. Time to act.
India
Imphal
Manipur
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Kangabam Leikai, Near Hotel Beigho, Imphal, Manipur
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: SOCIAL AWARENESS SERVICE ORGANIZATION
Contact: RK. Tiken
Phone: +91 9856365915
Email: saso.imp@gmail.com
Observation Program and remembering those lost lives due to Overdose. We will educate the peer, stakeholders and general public on how to response Overdose in an effective manner.
Pune
Maharashtra
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: Janhvi Foundation OST Center
Nanekar Chawal Bharatnagar
Pimpri Pune 411017
(Due to COVID 19 event may conduct online )
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Janhvi Foundation
Contact: Dr Vikram Gaikwad
Phone: +918999322855
Email: janhvifoundation@gmail.com
Following Activity will be conduct
1)Introduction and Basic of Opioids
2) What is overdose
3) Preventing overdose
4)Overdose Management
5)Naloxone
6)Recovery Counselling
7) Summery and conclusion
Indonesia
Denpasar
Bali
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Virtual Meeting Zoom
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Yayasan Kesehatan Bali
Contact: Doni Fauzan
Phone: +6289520937717
Email: arsip.yakeba@gmail.com
Online Discussion on Drugs with the theme of overdose. Inviting speakers from the National Narcotics Agency of Bali Province and the Hospital for Methadone Therapy Program, Bali Sanglah Hospital. Educate overdose problems that can occur in active narcotic users and methadone users. This activity will be followed by the general public, the addict community and the methadone therapy community.
Ireland
Bray
Wicklow
Date: 27/08/2020
Time: 10:30 am
Location: 4 B Dublin Road
Bray
Co.Wicklow
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Bray Community Addiction Team
Contact: Susan Sargent – Team Leader
Phone: 01/2745630
Email: info@bcat.ie
information workshops for Service Users. We are also working with another agency in the town, DAISH, to make a video interview of a local Doctor who works in the HSE Clinic here. This will then be put on our website and social media platforms for anyone to access. There will be a piece going into the Bray People local newspaper about the day itself and some useful links to services and information. We are requesting a spot on the local radio, East Coast FM on the 31st to highlight the day and useful links also but have had no confirmation of this as yet.
Dublin
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: Unit 1& 2 Neilstown Shopping Centre
Clondalkin
Dublin 22
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Neart le Chéile SUDS ( service users developing solidairty)
Contact: Neart LE Chéile
Phone: 01 4573515 /0872939487
Email:
Number of events as follows
1. Produce and broadcast a podcast The podcast for the IODA 2020 campaign will be an interview by SUDS members with Dr Denis O’Driscoll, which is scheduled to take place on 11th of August. The podcast will be available on the host platform and will be shared via social media and other websites such as Drugs.ie. on the platform from 31st August 20
2 Light up building
SUDS plan to display purple lighting on the community building as part of the IODA campaign, and purple candles to be displayed in the projects. This lighting will be visible on IODA Day and will be photographed by SUDS for the purpose of distributing the pictures on social media.
3. Merchandise – Plan to purchase keyring torches with IODA printed on them to provide to service users, families, and members of the community. The torch is in keeping with the ‘lighting’ theme and is a symbol of light and hope. Enquiries are being made re cost of purple ribbons from IODA.net.
4. Social media – publicity of the event and podcast is the key to the 2020 campaign given the Covid19 restrictions. It is hoped that via social media, the IODA message will reach more people in Clondalkin and wider communities. The event will be registered with IODA.net. and will be shared on Drugs.ie, Twitter and any local Facebook pages.
Dublin
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location:
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: HSE
Contact: Nicki Killeen
Phone:
Email: nicki.killeen@hse.ie
Minister with responsibility for the National Drug Strategy, Frank Feighan TD will launch new HSE emerging trend and overdose resources aimed at different at risk cohorts. Resources will include information about the changing benzodiazepine market in Ireland.
Dublin
Dublin
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Various locations
– Trainings: Dublin 1, Dublin 10, Dublin 7
– Naloxone Awareness survey – services around Ireland
– Distribution materials: online (social media and email) and hardcopies to be sent to services around Ireland.
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: UISCE
Contact: Maria Otero Vazquez
Phone: 0833926412
Email: maria@myuisce.org
UISCE Activities for IOAD 2020
– Naloxone training for PWUD, staff and family support workers in various services in Dublin (12/08,19/08 and 31/08)
– Naloxone awareness survey for PWUD – online and in person versions available.
– Overdose Response during COVID + Harm Reduction POSTER – Updated poster to be published and distributed
Dublin
Date: 19/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Dublin 1, Ireland
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: SAOL Project
Contact: SAOL
Phone: 018553391
Email:
Over 30 service users and staff within SAOL will come together and UISCE will deliver Naloxone training
Dublin
Dublin
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Organisation name – Job Plan, c/o Ballyfermot Chapelizod Partnership, 4 Drumfinn Park, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10.Venue for training- Ballyfermot Civic Centre, 407 Ballyfermot Rd, Drumfinn, Dublin 10, D10 W449
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Jobplan – Ballyfermot Chapelizod Partnership
Contact: Wayne Martin
Phone: 087 792 1515
Email: wmartin@bcpartnership.ie
Naloxone training and networking event
Virtual
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: HSE and Department of Health
Contact: Nicki Killeen
Phone:
Email: nicki.killeen@hse.ie
The HSE and Department of Health will commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day 2020 with an online event.
Special guest: Frank Feighan T.D., Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy.
In line with COVID-19 guidelines, this year’s event will be held online. This virtual event will encompass the theme ‘Time to remember, time to act. This is more important than ever’
New awareness posters will be launched by the Minister as well as presentations from:
Dr Denis O’Driscoll, The Naloxone Demonstration Project
Dr Eamon Keenan, HSE National Clinical Lead Addiction Services
Clare Austick, Vice President for Welfare, The Union of Students in Ireland
Waterford
Munster
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: The Millennium Building
Church Road
Lisduggan
Waterford
X91 FN5V
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: South East Family Support Network
Contact: Breda Fell
Phone:
Email:
Our groups will be promoting the significance of raising awareness of overdose, of spreading the message that the tragedy of overdose death and injury is preventable and of reducing the stigma of a drug-related death. These deaths have a huge impact on families and communities. We are also promoting the importance of Naloxone in helping to reduce and prevent these fatalities.
Wicklow
Bray
Date: 25/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: 97 Main street, Bray Co Wicklow
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Daish Project T.S.A.S
Contact: Christy
Phone: 00353879019351
Email: daishproject.manager@outlook.com
Awareness Workshops on Overdose, signs and symptoms, C.P.R and basic life saving skills
Demonstration on Naloxone administration and accessibility
Wicklow
Bray
Date: 27/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: BCAT , Please contact Susan Sargant on 01-2765692
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Bray Community Addiction Team
Contact: Susan Sargant
Phone: 01-2764692
Email: ssargant@bcat.ie
Overdose awareness work shops
Naloxone demonstrations
Basic lifesaving skills
CPR
Italy
ALESSANDRIA
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Drop In
Alessandria – Via Santa Caterina 36-
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Drop In
Contact: Marta Sofia
Phone:
Email: dropinalessandria@gmail.com
Morning:
Comparison and peers support
Coordinated by Isola di Arran (an old italian association of PUDH)
Afternoon:
Wall painting with boys and girls attend the Drop In and video time lapse of the activity
Firenze
Toscana
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: CAT social cooperative
Contact: valentina menzella
Phone:
Email:
Website
Florence
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: Webinar on line
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Forum Droghe
Contact: Leonardo Fiorentini
Phone:
Email: direttore@fuoriluogo.it
31 Agosto 2020
International overdose awareness day
Forum Droghe – ITARDD – ITANPUD – la Società della Ragione
Mai senza naloxone!
Anche in Italia una legge del Buon Samaritano
In Italia tutti possiamo salvare una persona dall’overdose da oppiacei.
Il naloxone è un farmaco da banco, tutti possiamo acquistarlo, averlo in tasca e somministrarlo in caso di necessità.
I servizi di RdD lo distribuiscono gratuitamente alle persone che usano sostanze.
La legge penale tutela chi interviene per salvare una vita, e anzi sanziona l’omissione di soccorso.
Però.
Però accade troppo spesso che chi interviene si ritrovi fermato, interrogato, coinvolto in controlli che lo mettono a rischio.
Rilanciamo confronto, proposta e iniziativa per una legge del Buon Samaritano.
Per tutelare chi soccorre, favorire pratiche solidali, salvare vite.
Genova
Italy
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: Piazza Giambattista Raggi (uscita tunnel stazione Brignole, lato Borgo Incrociati)
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Unità di strada Genova
Contact: Giulio Derchi
Phone: 3420220403
Email: udsgenova@afetaquilone.org
For the International Overdose Awareness day 2020, we will be on the street to provide informations about how to properly manage an overdose, drug counselling and other harm reduction services, such as free naloxone distribution.
Per la giornata internazionale della consapevolezza sull’overdose saremo in strada col nostro camper (dietro la stazione Brignole, uscita tunnel lato Borgo Incrociati) per contribuire a diffondere informazioni affidabili sul tema dell’overdose e distribuire gratuitamente il Naloxone (che resta ovviamente disponibile anche tutti gli altri giorni dell’anno). Dalle 15:00 alle 17:00.
Reggio Emilia
Italia
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 am
Location: Servizio Dipendenze Patologiche REGGIO EMILIA, via Amendola, 2 e Servizio SerDP a bassa soglia di accesso/DROP-IN/SEI Coop. La Quercia, via Bocconi 2/4, DSM-DP AUSL RE
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: servizio a bassa soglia di accesso serDP/drop-in coop La Quercia, SerDP-AUSL REGGIO EMILIA
Contact: Luana Oddi
Phone: +39 0522335059; +39 0522335573
Email: luana.oddi@ausl.re.it
Decorazioni dei DPI cOi loghi della giornata internazionale di consapevolezza sulle overdose;
Comunicato stampa su SIto ausl
Esposizione naloxone ed offerta a tutti i pazienti
Disponibilità a fornire informazioni su trattamento overdose a cittadini, pazienti e famigliari
Reggio Emilia
Emilia Romagna
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 am
Location: Servizio Dipendenza Patologiche, vai Amendola, 2 (RE); Ambulatorio SerDP a Bassa Soglia e drop-in/SEI di via Bocconi 2/4 (RE) DSM-DP dell’AUSL di Reggio Emilia
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Servizio Dip. Patologiche, ambulatorio SerDP a bassa soglia di accesso con drop-in/SEI della coop. La Quercia
Contact: dr.ssa Luana Oddi
Phone: + 39 0522335573; + 39 0522335059
Email: luana.oddi@ausl.re.it
Decorazione:
– l’esposizione del farmaco salvavita naloxone negli ambulatori;
– decorazione dei Dispositivi Individuali di Protezione (mascherine e camici) con loghi specifici della giornata;
– counselling su overdose e sul’uso di naloxone a famigliari, pazienti e cittadini;
– comunicato stampa della nostra AUSL.
Torino
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Chemical Sisters
Contact: Valentina Mancuso
Phone: 3493678930
Email: narcofeminist99@gmail.com
We will organize a training day linked to the prevention and awareness of the overdose phenomenon, with particular attention to the female gender. We would produce informative material, photos and small experiential videos on the overdose theme
Venice
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:30 am
Location: Serd Mestre – Public traetment service
via Calabria in Mestre
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Dipartimento Dipendenze ASL3 Serenissima
Contact: Alessandro Pani
Phone: +390412608250
Email:
Information about overdose, counselling and Naloxone distribution;
Kenya
Nairobi
Kenya
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Kenay AIDS NGOs Consortium ( KANCO)
Contact: Wachira Charity
Phone: +254 722203344
Email: infodesk@kanco.org
Free Webinar to Mark the International Overdose Awareness Day
Liberia
Brewerville
Montserrado
Date: 29/08/2020
Time: 10:45 am
Location: Sam Gibson Road, Red Hill Field Community
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: YouthAid-Liberia (YAL)-Partners4Humanity
Contact: Swaliho M. Fofana
Phone: 0777117764
Email: swal459yal@gmail.com
“STOP THE STIGMA, LET’S PREVENT OVERDOSE” is a Campaign organized by YAL-Partners4Humanity in commemoration of the 2020 International Overdose Awareness Day In Liberia. The Campaign will be implemented in ghettos for at-risk youth in Montserrado County.
Mauritius
PortLouis
Mauritius
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Loges de Mangalkhan Flireal Mauritius
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: AILES MAURITUUS
Contact: Brigitte Sohun Michel
Phone: 23057552950
Email: Ailessmangalkhan2009@gmail.com
Training and awareness of overdose management
Press communique
Live expressions of families having lost relatives to overdose
Social medias awareness
Quatre Bornes
Date: 29/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: SSR Avenue
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: CUT Collectif Urgence Toxida
Contact: Gaelle Bernard
Phone: +230 5974 1290
Email: g.bernard@cut.mu
For the first time in Mauritius, two organizations, CUT (Collectif Urgence Toxida) and AILES (Aides, Infos, Liberté, Espoir, Solidarité) will mark the international overdose awareness day.
From Saturday August 29, an awareness campaign offering 3 videos will be broadcast on the social networks of CUT. A testimonial video from people directly affected by overdose, an awareness video with a simulation and a video with the activists who will pay tribute to the people who have died of overdose.
On Monday August 31 a workshop will take place at AILES, an overdose awareness day and training on risk reduction and first aid which will be provided for the attention of relevant NGOs and key populations.
At the beginning of September, a position paper will also be sent to the various ministries and the Prime Minister’s office to sensitize leaders to this problematic.
Mexico
Mexicali
Baja California
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 am
Location: “Centro comunitario Verter”
Mariano Azueta 230-3, Col. Primera Sección
Mexicali, Baja California.
México
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Verter
Contact: Said Slim
Phone: 5540553025
Email: sslim@verter.org.mx
Actividad dirigida a la comunidad de personas que se inyectan drogas en donde se realizará un mural, se proyectarán videos, se desarrollarán entrenamientos y talleres para prevenir sobredosis, habrá un conversatorio entre la comunidad, haremos una vigilia por las personas que han perdido la vida y daremos una cena a las personas que asistan.
Tijuana
Baja California
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Calle Baja California #7580, Colonia Zona norte.
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Prevencasa A.C.
Contact: Alfonso Chávez
Phone: 6645963171
Email: alfonso@prevencasa.org
Taller dirigido a la comunidad de personas que se inyectan drogas, también pueden participar amigos de consumidores, familiares y profesionales de la salud.
Temas:
Prevención y atención de sobredosis.
Técnicas de inyección segura.
Montenegro
Podgorica
Montenegro
Date: 29/08/2020
Time: 12:00 am
Location: Bulevar Revolucije
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: NGO Juventas
Contact: Marija Mijović
Phone: +38269160093
Email: marija.mijovic.89@gmail.com
In the light of the recent develompents during COVID-19 pandemic, Juventas focused this years campaign on promoting IOAD trough social media. Information, posters, memes and last years documentary video were shared on all social media, to raise awareness on this huge problem in Montenegro.
Myanmar
Myitkyin, Mogaung, Hopin
Kachin
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:10 am
Location: We will do 3 Awareness events in our three project sites targeted to local stakeholders, family members and people who used drugs.1) Myitkyina township => Key Population service centre of MdM – F2) Moguang township => Outreach areas (villages) of project site -F3) Hopin township => Local Administration office and shooting galleries in project area
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Medecins du Monde-France (MdM-F)
Contact: NU NU LWIN
Phone:
Email: advocacy.myanmar@medecinsdumonde.net
Awareness Session regarding overdose prevention, management and referral process when overdose case happens to local stakeholders.
Health Education Sessions for people who used drug related with overdose prevention and management.
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Date: 26/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: AFEW International
Contact: Olga
Phone:
Email:
On our website we launched a series of stories about overdose in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They will be published before 31 of August. On the 31 of August we will publish an article about harm reduction in the EECA region with comments from dutch experts in harm reduction.
Nigeria
Abuja
Federa Capital Territory
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Jeremiah Oseni Junction, Gwagwalada Area Council- Abuja
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: YouthRISE Nigeria
Contact: Ogunrombi Adeolu
Phone: +234 (0) 8060467478
Email: nigeria@youthrise.org
Increase Knowledge of drug users on how to prevent overdose and her related death.
Norway
Oslo
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:08 pm
Location: Litteraturhuset, Oslo
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Forbundet Mot Rusgift
Contact: Knut T. Reinås
Phone: 97595548
Email: kreinas@online.no
Meeting with three speakers:
Thomas Clausen, SERAF: Overdoses, situations and development in Norway and elsewhere.
Karin Merethe Waleur from naltreksonprosjektet at Akershus University Hospital: How can long lasting naltrexone prevent overdoses?
Espen Freng, Directorate of Health: The governments strategy against overdoses, and local overdose development during the corona epidemic.
http://fmr.no/overdosemarkering-2020.6326392-7702.html
Portugal
Porto and Lisbon
Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: We’re developing activities on the territories of selling and consumption of ilicit drugs with our peers particularly those Who Inject, but not only them. For this reason we do not share the exact location of the encounter
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: CASO – PORTUGAL
Contact: Rui Coimbra
Phone: +351926369016
Email: casoportugal@gmail.com
August 31, 2020 – International Awareness Day for Overdose deaths overdose
This international day was established with the main objectives of:
– Claiming a change in international drug policies to reduce the burden of overdose deaths.
– To remember those who lost their lives in this “war on drugs”, which is nothing more than a war against people who use drugs to their families and friends and to all of society.
– Recognize the “chronic” pain of the friends and family of those who lost their lives in this war.
– Recognize the persistence of stigma associated with the use of illicit “drugs” and deaths from overdose, identify what allows stigma to persist and create active strategies and measures to combat and eliminate it, in line with resolution 6/11 of the Commission of Narcotic Drugs (CND) of the United Nations (UN): “Promotion of non-stigmatizing attitudes to guarantee the availability, access and implementation of social, health and care services for people who use drugs”( https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CND/CND_Sessions/CND_61/CND_res2018/CND_Resolution_61_11.pdf)
In 2019, 874 events of all kinds were promoted in 39 countries.
CASO (Associated Consumers Survive Organized) association, like in previous years, joins this International movement, coordinated by the Penington Institute, an Australian non-profit organization that promotes empathetic understanding, compassionate solidarity and the necessary changes, so that people who use drugs, their families and friends can see their humanity recognized and put an end to the stigma and premature and unnecessary deaths.
Thus, with the support of the European Network of People Who Use Drugs (EuroNPUD), with supporters and partners and with the community of People Who Use Drugs, CASO will be involved in actions in Porto and Lisbon.
In Porto, the actions will take place on Sunday 30th and Monday 31st of August in a place where there is a lot of injected consumption and will be as follows:
– Morning meeting for a symbolic cleaning of the space.
– Community lunch.
– Training of trainers in the identification of signs of opiate overdose and protocol of action, including the administration of Naloxone.
– Assembly of caregivers.
– Collection of personal testimonies.
In Lisbon, the actions result from a partnership between the Drug Consumption Mobile Unit Program (a partnership between GAT and Medecins du Monde) and CASO.
CASO supported and facilitated the planning together with a Group of Peer Workers that the Program is developing, and they will be implementing the following actions on the 31st, 1st and 2nd:
On the 31st:
– Territory cleaning
– Community lunch.
– Training of trainers on polydrug use, overdose, opioid overdose and Naloxone administration and action protocol.
– Assembly of caregivers
– Construction of a graffiti.
The training and assembly of caregivers will be repeated on the 1st and 2nd of September in the territories in which the consumption program intervenes.
(The complete list of all IOAD 2020 events happening this year can be seen at the following link: https://www.overdoseday.com/activities-2020/)
In Portugal, although we have a national syringe exchange program since 1993, only last year Naloxone was made available for outreach harm reduction teams. Despite we have a law that foresees a safe consumption spaces since 2001, but only in last year the first one was opened in Lisbon, with other spaces promised, while in Porto the debate has been going on for some years, but spaces for safe consumption you cannot see them.
These are worrying signs of the persistence of stigma and are symptoms of a clear inoperability of the model as it stands. This situation has been signalled by several stakeholders in the sector and recently Dr. João Goulão, coordinator of SICAD also calls for the Ministry of Health to make decisions that allow the evolution and development of a model that has already been, more than it is now, an international reference.
With sars-cov2 affecting the whole world and winter approaching, we fear that the “time” of politicians’ decisions will not arrive in time to prevent unnecessary death and suffering among the community of People Using Drugs, their families and friends.
Thus, we would like with these actions to remember that:
– There should be more spaces for safe consumption that would reduce the stigma, deaths, and suffering of those who consume in circumstances of greater vulnerability.
– The strategy for Naloxone to be at the right time, in the right place must be clearer so that we can prevent deaths from opioid overdose. CASO and the Peers of people who use illicit “drugs”, are available, as they have always been, to contribute to a clearer strategy and to the training of trainers in the identification of signs of opiate overdose and the protocol of action for ending unnecessary death and suffering.
– Considering that we speak of marginalized and excluded groups, classified as “hard and very hard to reach”, but that for us are the people with whom we meet every day and, therefore, “easy or very easy to reach”, we recall the availability of Peers of People who use illicit “Drugs” to facilitate or be the bridge between these people and the responses and services of the State and Civil Society to which they are entitled like any other human being.
replacement therapy should not be a prison
– treatment is not only abstinence
– consumption is not just a disease but a complex human phenomenon
– service beneficiaries are not yet involved in political or clinical decisions as they should
So, despite being a model that at the time was innovative and inspiring, now we need to be able to fully apply it and try to respond to the new challenges we face, namely:
– drug checking services
– specialized services for women and non-conforming gender persons
– responses to new needs arising from different contexts of use
In summary, we think, in line with the Global Commission on Drug Policy, that the next logical step will be the regulation of the drug market with the meaningful involvement of servicer users and people who use drugs.
Puerto Rico
Arecibo
PR
Date: 25/08/2020
Time: 11:30 am
Location: Street 653 Km. 0.8. Las Dunas Arecibo, P.R
P.O. Box 4010. Arecibo, P.R. 00614
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: University of Puerto Rico -Arecibo, Department of Counseling and Psychological Services
Contact: ELBA GUZMAN
Phone: 7878150000 x.3653
Email: elba.guzman1@upr.edu
Various activities from August 25 to 31: Virtual activity: Presentation of educational videos, Virtual Vigil “Turn your screen purple” Conference: “The Effects of Alcohol in the Young Adult” and Presentation of the Documentary: “Opioids in Puerto Rico: A Chronic Health Problem”
Serbia
Beograd
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 08:00 am
Location: Beograd
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Aleksandar Zugic
Phone:
Email: info@izlazak.org
We will mark the day then. We will have a press release and we will put up posters with the message on that day in 10 city busses.
Slovenia
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Date: 07/08/2020
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: City Center of Ljubljana
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: društvo AREAL (part of hub KOOPERATIVA ROG)
Contact: Janko Belin
Phone: 070133804
Email: belinjanko@gmail.com
This year, we will repeat the campaign from Support Don’t Punish, which we carried out a month ago. We will join the protests with banners and T-shirts designed by EuroNPUD. The AREAL Association is part of a civic initiative that is not happy with our nationalist right-wing government. From March 2020, we go to the streets and in front of the parliament every Tuesday and Friday to protest. We have an open microphone in front of the monument to France Prešeren (our national poet). Our movement has 6 groups – we joined the social affairs group (we could also go to the medical affairs group, but we wouldn’t get the word out there because they deal too much with Covid-19).
No Passaran!
To have a better idea – about 5,000-7,000 of us gather. Depending on the action, we are also on bikes from time to time to make it easier to avoid the Police.
Ljubljana
Slovenia , EU
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 06:00 am
Location: Print Media , Radio, Television ( education, training, counseling, monitoring, publishing, informing, raising awareness, proposing expert opinions or standpoints, offering expert advice and similar )
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: ICANNA- International Research Institute for Cannabinoids
Contact: Dusan Nolimal
Phone: 00 386 31 605 529
Email: Dusan.Nolimal@institute-icanna.com
ICANNA Institute achieves its goals through the implementation of research, development, analysis, education, training, counseling, monitoring, publishing, informing, raising awareness, proposing expert opinions or standpoints, offering expert advice and similar. Too many people have died from drug overdoses during last years. We will publish several articles to raise more awareness on gaps to be bridged in implementing of national drug strategy. The articles show significant gaps between the abitious strategic goals and policy actions adopted by the government and the reality perceived by different NGOs and our institute. The following is the summary of the articles and the ICANNA’s data and standpoint: Innovation harm reduction interventions such as naloxone distribution programs and drug consumption rooms are not available in Slovenia. Also, “good Good Samaritan law” is not available and there is no legal protection to people who give reasonable assistance to those who need drug related help. The poorly designed drug policy the state has also fueled overdose crises. For example, by focusing repressive drug policies on low level offenders and people who use drugs the state has also aggravated harms to public health. EU and the national governments must acknowledge the negative consequences of the repressive law enforcement approaches to drug policies and there should be more support for overdose prevention efforts by EU and national governments. The proposed New EU Drugs Agenda 2021-2025 and related EU Action Plan on Drugs continues to ignore some evidence: The most effective means to prevent deaths by overdose are still lacking across the EU.
South Africa
Durban
KwaZulu-Natal
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 05:30 pm
Location: Bellhaven Memorial Centre
217 First Ave.
Durban, South Africa
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Advance Access & Delivery
Contact: Michael Wilson
Phone: +27743895340
Email: michaelw@aadglobal.org
An evening vigil will be held to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day and to provide an opportunity for the community to remember those who have died from a drug overdose.
Durban
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Belhaven Memorial Center
217 First Avenue
Greyville
Durban
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: TBHIV Care
Contact: Lucky Ndlovu
Phone: 0835339398
Email: Lucky@tbhivcare.org
Overdose education
Interactive session- Recovery position role play
Overdose Pamphlets
Johannesburg
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Life Esidimeni
Life Recovery Centre: Witpoort
185 Lemmer road
Brakpan
1540
South Africa
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: The Department of Social Development
Contact: Makhosazana Mavuso
Phone: +27727329381
Email: MakhosazanaMa@dsd.gov.za
To engage with service users at the facility and to also conduct assessment of COVID-19 protocols compliance.
Polokwane
Limpopo
Date: 31/08/2019
Time: 06:00 am
Location: SANCA Limpopo Alcohol and Drug Centre social media platforms
Website: www.sancalimpopo.co.za
Facebook: SANCA Limpopo non-governmental organization
Linkedin: SANCA LIMPOPO ALCOHOL AND DRUG CENTRE
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: SANCA Limpopo Alcohol and Drug Centre
Contact: Hezekiel Boloka
Phone: 0768944850
Email: hezekiel@sancalimpopo.co.za
Sanca will conduct a question and answer video session
Spain
Barcelona
Please Select (only U.S. / Can / Aus)
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Agora Juan Andrés Benítez. Calle Aurora
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: CATNPUD
Contact: Aura Roig
Phone: 697755499
Email: metzineres@metzineres.org
Gathering of families, neighbors, and people who use drugs with tapas to remember the people who died because overdose. There will be a march to celebrate their lives that will end with a premier of the documentary about the impact of the war on drugs in families. There will be also a conversation with the main characters and the director.
Sweden
Stockholm
Stockholm
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Livdjursgatan 5A 12162 Johanneshov Sweden
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Brukaranhörigas Riksorganisation BARO (National Organization for Relatives to Drug Users (NORD)
Contact: Christine Sander
Phone: +46708835328
Email: christine@brukaranhoriga.se
We will partly have activity on social media. Partly together with Brukarföreningen Stockholm (The Stockholm Drug Users Union) who will make a film on how to get, give Naloxone and recognize an overdose something that relatives in Sweden are looking for.
Switzerland
Bern
Bern
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:00 pm
Location: Holderstrasse 22
3011 Bern
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: CONTACT Anlaufstelle Bern
Contact: Sabrina Dürrmüller
Phone:
Email: sabrina.duerrmueller@contactmail.ch
Um Folgeschäden von Überdosierungen weiter minimieren zu können, bietet CONTACT Anlaufstelle Bern für ihre Klient*innen am International Overdose Awareness Day folgendes an:
– Erste Hilfe – Kurs bei Überdosierungen (in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Rettungsdienst Spital Emmental)
– Informationen zu Überdosierungen, Erste Hilfe, Wirkung von Substanzen und Substanztrends
– Getränke
Nur für registrierte Klient*innen von CONTACT Anlaufstelle Bern
Masken stehen zur Verfügung.
To further minimize consequential damages of overdoses, CONTACT Anlaufstelle Bern offers the following for its participants on International Overdose Awareness Day:
– overdose response training (in collaboration with EMS Emmental)
– information about overdose prevention, first aid, effects of substances and substance trends
– Beverages
For registered participants only
Masks are provided.
Tanzania
Tanga
Tanga region
Date: 27/08/2020
Time: 08:04 am
Location: Tkfm.
Gift of hope foundation ,head office.
Maua street
Tanga city
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Gift of hope foundation
Contact: Saidi John Bandawe
Phone: +255766841815
Email: giftofh@gmail.com
Health care and overdose treatment to community peers
Uganda
Kampala
Central
Date: 24/08/2020
Time: 07:00 am
Location: Kampala Uganda
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Students For Sensible Drug Policy – Uganda
Contact: Nyanda Julius
Phone: +256 787458975
Email: students@ssdp.org
1. Media visibility; Radio talk show, Tc shows, twitter live chat, Webinar
2. Workshop with key note speakers
3. Overdose awareness run
4. Street march with placards and banners
United Kingdom
England
Bristol
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Digital
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Bristol Drugs Project
Contact: Sophia Darweish
Phone:
Email: info@bdp.org.uk
Contributing to a video project that is running instead of the ‘flash mob’ performance in 2019. The video will be a drama piece of different movements set to music then broadcast live on the 31st. The main project is being organised by Small Performance Adventures.
Halifax
Date: 28/09/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: St Johns House, 2 St John’s Ln, Halifax HX1 2JD, United Kingdom
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Calderdale Recovery Steps
Contact: Esi Stanley
Phone:
Email:
Naloxone education campaign on social media in the lead up to International Overdose Awareness Day.
Plymouth
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 01:13 pm
Location: Theatre Royal Plymouth
Royal Parade
Plymouth
Devon
UK
PL1 2TR
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Our Space, Theatre Royal Plymouth
Contact: Sara Rhodes
Phone: 07732499859
Email: sara.rhodes@theatreroyal.com
Our Space, a creative programme that works with adults with multiple and complex needs run by the Theatre Royal Plymouth is working in partnership with a range of recovery arts organisations across the UK to create a series of performances that due to the Covid-19 pandemic will not be performed live, but be simultaneously shared online on August 31st 2020 at 13.13pm (BST) (UTC+1) https://www.facebook.com/ODALiveUK/
These video performances created by artists and participants in recovery are ritual acts of remembrance and respect which also aim to raise awareness and reduce stigma.
The organisations participating are: small performance adventures, We are Not Saints, Edit Sweet, Bristol Drugs Project and Outside Edge Theatre Company
St Helens
England
Date: 28/08/2020
Time: 01:30 pm
Location: Online
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Change, Grow Live (CGL-St Helens)
Contact: Amanda Taft
Phone: 07425424188
Email: amanda.taft@cgl.org.uk
Mammoth Online Recovery Share via Zoom.
We are inviting various recovery communities to attend an online meeting sharing their recovery experiences, strength and hope. We have a live singer performing as well as our Naloxone Peer Educators giving a talk on Naloxone.
Scotland
Country wide
Date: 25/08/2020
Time: 02:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Turning Point Scotland
Contact: Patricia Tracey
Phone: 07909156438
Email: patriciatracey@turningpointscotland.com
We are a diverse social care organisation woking accross many social care groups. We are taking over our company wide zoom to raise awareness of overdose and everyone’s responsibility to prevent drug reacted deaths. We will also be promoting naloxone awareness in sectors that don’t work with people who sue illicit drugs. We will also be having everyone across the meeting displaying #stopthedeaths logo and we will be promoting photos of this on social media.
Fraserburgh
Aberdeenshire
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Aberdeenshire Housing Support Service
63 Moray Road
Fraserburgh
AB43 9QX
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Turning Point Scotland
Contact: Sheila McAlinden
Phone: 01346512056
Email: sheilamcalinden@turningpointscotland.com
Naloxone training
Raising awareness of drug related deaths and prevention
Remembering people we have lost through drug related deaths
Glasgow
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location: Glasgow City Centre 123 West Street
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: Claire Gallagher
Phone: 0141 420 6969
Email: clairegallagher@turningpointscotland.com
Glasgow Drug Crisis Service are carrying out Naloxone awareness both in house and on our Mobile Injecting Equipment Provision Van. Both service users and staff will take time also to remember those that have lost their lives through addiction.
Glasgow
Lanarkshire
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: Criminal Justice Tenancy Sustainment Service
on Microsoft Teams
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Turning Point Scotland
Contact: Stephen Harkins
Phone: 0141 4064411
Email: GCJTSS@turningpointscotland.com
Virtual naloxone training and refresher training delivered by 2 Peers Support Practitioners to the Glasgow CJTSS team.
Glasgow
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 10:30 am
Location: Glasgow Residential Stabilisation Service
840 Garscube Rd,
Glasgow
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Turningpoint Scotland
Contact: Lyn Foy
Phone: 0141 948 0092
Email:
We are hosting a training session about naloxone and we will be giving out supplies on the day.
We will have a group work session about over dose awareness and peer naloxone provision.
As an organisation we will be having a minutes silence at 12md to remember those we have lost.
glasgow
Date: 31/08/2020
Time: 09:00 am
Location:
Public/Private: Private
Individual/Organisation: Individual
Name of Organisation:
Contact: sandra
Phone: 01413316200
Email: sandramutter@turningpointscotland.com
activities throughout the day, lives we have lost