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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
An Overdose Awareness Week
running from August 28th through
September 3rd was organized to bring to light the ongoing problem of opioid
overdoses in the City and to highlight the variety of resources available
to victims. Stanley
Street Treatment and Resources BOLD Coordinator Laura Washington
gathered volunteers in Lower Kennedy Park on International
Overdose Awareness Day, August 31, 2016, who agreed to take literature
door to door in neighborhoods across the City that helped people recognize
the signs of an opioid overdose and the resources available to treat it.. The event is in response to the steady
rise in overdose deaths in Fall River over the past several years, with numbers
moving from 16 in 2013 to 44 in 2014 and 36 in 2015. Click
here for a three-and-a-half-minute 
video of the event. Click
here for the Herald News article. Click
here for photos of a candlelight vigil and here for a
candlelight procession that followed later that evening. For more information, contact the Mayor's
Office at 508-324-2600. |
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(Top row, left) Kristen Beaulieu reads the International Overdose Awareness Day logo on a shirt as Allie and Nancy Paull look on. (Top row, center and right) Building Our Lives Drug-free (BOLD) staff member Nic Charest hands out tee shirts and BOLD bags. (Middle row, left) BOLD Coordinator Laura Washington gives instruction to the volunteers on the door to door outreach. (Middle row, right) SSTAR employee Paula Beaulieu looks on as Joann Wilkins displays a photo of her ex-husband who died of an overdose a year earlier. (Bottom row) Joann is joined by SSTAR employee Marie Pelletier and Paula and Kristen Beaulieu as they cross Middle Street on the way up Broadway to leave literature on doorknobs. |
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