Dear Colleagues,
August 31 is Overdose Awareness Day, a day where we pay tribute to friends and family who have died from overdose, and call attention to this leading cause of death among people who inject opiates.  EHRN will send a message on August 31, marking the day and summarizing efforts to address this issue in the past year. If your program has trained people how to recognize, prevent and respond to overdose; if you’ve advocated for expanded access to overdose prevention tools like naloxone; or if you’ve written a report or article or made a film about overdose, we’d like to include it in the update.

Please send your updates to Roxanne Saucier at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by August 17th.  

Why do we mark Overdose Awareness Day?
- Overdose is a leading cause of death of people who inject opiates, including those living with HIV.
- Overdose death can be prevented.
- More and more harm reduction programs are saving lives by distributing naloxone (a drug that reverses opiate overdose and is on the WHO model list of essential medicines) to people who use drugs and their communities - but many have not started to do so yet.

To learn more, visit http://www.harm-reduction.org/overdose.html.

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