Attack Addiction to commemorate Overdose Awareness Day Aug. 31

To commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day and the thousands of lives lost in Delaware to the opioid epidemic, Attack Addiction will host a public event at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 31, on The Circle in Georgetown.

International Overdose Awareness Day is the largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember those who have died from overdose, and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind. Attack Addiction is a grassroots nonprofit founded by Don and Jeanne Keister, who lost their adult son, Tyler, to an accidental overdose.

Attack Addiction invites the community to come together to commemorate the lives lost to overdose, provide local resources and support, and offer messages of remembrance, healing and hope.

“While Attack Addiction and so many other organizations, government agencies and treatment providers are working hard to reduce the impact of the opioid epidemic in our state, we must take time to honor and remember the lives lost to this crisis and the impact those losses have had on family, friends and the entire Delaware community,” said Don Keister. “Our Attack Addiction members will be out in ... Georgetown to remember those lives lost, and to provide prevention and treatment resources to members of our community.”

For more information, go to attackaddiction.org.