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overdose awareness day

Overdose Awareness Day: Honoring Those We Have Lost By Preventing Future Overdose Deaths

Written by Marla Kauffman | August 25, 2022

August 31 marks International Overdose Awareness Day. This is a day to remember those we have lost in the past year to overdose of opioids and other substances. As of November 2021, more than 100,000 people have lost their lives annually to substance overdose.  In order to properly commemorate those lives we have lost, we […]

Filed Under: Addiction in the News, News, Pittsburgh Tagged With: Addiction, addiction treatment, opiate overdose, overdose, overdose awareness day

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