The Opioid Overdose Epidemic and How You Can Help

The fentanyl epidemic is at an all-time high. If your loved one died of an overdose, I am so sorry. I have met many of you in my mediumship readings. I too, know this pain; I am 12 years sober and I have lost many people to overdoses. It is the worst feeling when someone you love dies in a way that seems like it could have been preventable.

With the recent tragic death of the talented actor and beautiful soul, Angus Cloud, I’m grieving the loss of him, the people I have personally lost, the massive amount of people that die every year to overdoses, and for all the people that love them. I’m grieving the bigger systemic drivers of trauma and substance use in our society.

If your loved one died of an overdose, I am sending you so much love, comfort, and pray your heart is eased from just a little bit of the pain you carry. Grief does not go away, we learn to live with it.

Fentanyl is a potent opioid that is easy to overdose on. Unfortunately, it has become very common for street drugs to be unknowingly laced with it.

Naloxone (brand name Narcan) is an FDA approved medication and is an opioid antagonist, which means that it binds and blocks opioid receptors and can reverse an opioid overdose. Learning how to spot the signs of overdose and administer naloxone can save lives.

@end.overdose offers a free training on their website as well as free naloxone and test strips. The test strips can be used to detect fentanyl in drugs, preventing overdose.

@end.overdose offers free test strips, naloxone (Narcan), and training. You can also purchase naloxone over the counter in all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and most of Canada.

It won't bring back the people we have already lost, but could prevent us from losing more.

I may never need to use the skills learned in the naloxone training but better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Learn to save a life, go to @end.overdose for their free naloxone training.