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Anyone who travels the road of grief after losing someone they love to overdose knows the burden of stigma, anger, remorse, as well as the darkest imaginable sorrow and depression,” Marilee Murphy Odendahl, an activist affiliated with Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing (GRASP) said in a statement read by Schmitz at Thursday’s vigil. “People often say that anger is a negative emotion—I disagree,” the statement continued. “It seems to me that the most logical response to losing someone you love to overdose is anger. Anger is the natural response. Death by overdose is preventable. To watch statistics rise every year should make you angry. Tonight I would challenge you to channel your anger as a catalyst for your involvement in the solution.
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fromHeroin Use In Chicago: Report Shows Overdoses On The Rise, Families Gather For Awareness Vigil, TheHuffington Post
Powerful words from a mother who lost her son to overdose. Far too many lives have been lost needlessly. We know how to keep people from dying of overdose - expand access to naloxone now!
