4th Annual International Overdose Awareness Day Vigil
Schedule
Sun Aug 31 2025 at 10:00 am to 02:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1248 North Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY | Rochester, NY
Recovery All Ways will be hosting our fourth annual international overdose awareness vigil, brought to you by impacted people, for impacted people.We ask you to stand in solidarity with us and people who are at risk of fatal overdose.
Want to learn how to distribute naloxone?
Want share your resources (food, clothes, money) DIRECTLY with people in need?
Want to learn about evidence based policy changes that will end the overdose crisis?
Wanna have some yummy food and be surrounded by loving community?
Schedule:
10:00 - regular community outreach operations
Noon - Welcome/Food served
12:30 - Naloxone training
12:45 - Sharing about our loved ones and our needs
12:55 - Say their names, moment of silence
1:15 - What can be done?
1:30-2 - Community and closing
We will supply burgers, hot dogs, buns and condiments, you are welcome to bring drinks, chips and other side dishes!
As directly impacted people, nothing is more personal to us than the constant threat of fatal overdose, threatening both for our own lives and the lives of those we love.
Politicians and policy makers are currently failing us, continuing to arrest us, standing in the way of evidence based solutions likes OPC's and decriminalization, and actively contributing to the shame and stigmatization that is driving this crisis.
We hope to create space for the voices of people of color, LGBTQI, and poor people who use drugs to be heard. We all understand the importance of making space for the voices of people who are using drugs, and yet we are left out of most spaces, events and committees. So we have decided to create our own space, in the space where most of these overdose deaths are occurring, and will be offering life saving services to those who are at risk.
We look forward to the time when we can stop having these events at all, when policy makers will have stopped delivering platitudes and started delivering bold policy changes.
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
