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Photo caption: Melissa Vinyard, a peer advocate at GCASA, shares her story of recovery at Wednesday\u2019s Overdose Awareness Day. Vinyard said drugs and alcohol use nearly killed her, but she sought help and now has been sober since Dec. 30, 2017.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Mike Pettinella GCASA Publicist<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Over the 12 months prior to September of 2020, 90,237 in the United States \u2013 a 30 percent increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, 585,000 worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, 15 in Genesee County and seven in Orleans County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those figures represent the number of people who have died from an opioid overdose \u2013 staggering figures that reveal the extent of the epidemic that continues to devastate society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Healthcare and mental health professionals in Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties on the front lines of this scourge came together on Wednesday afternoon at Austin Park for the annual International Overdose Awareness Day observance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representatives of a dozen agencies plus area residents whose lives have been affected by opioid use attended the event, which was to raise awareness and to remember those who have been lost due to an overdose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesee\/Orleans Public Health Director Paul Pettit shared that in 2020, 58 people from Genesee County went to the emergency room last year and another 38 from Orleans County went to the ER due to drug overdoses \u2013 both up from 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat can be attributed to COVID; people were isolated and feeling alone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pettit had encouraging words about the efforts of the GOW Opioid Task Force, an organization comprised of people from various sectors of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working together for many years and are making great strides,\u201d he said, mentioning an increase in the access to care and the amount of Narcan training being done. \u201cWe want to get more people trained. We have a medication that can save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that since 2018, about 3,500 people have been trained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re making gains but we still have a ways to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Bennett, executive director of Genesee\/Orleans Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, spoke about the impact of Overdose Awareness Day throughout the world, noting that events such as the one in Batavia are taking place throughout the state and in around 40 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Overdose Awareness Day was created in 2001 by Sally J. Finn at The Salvation Army in St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we come together today, not only think about those locally who have lost their lives, but this is a worldwide problem that\u2019s killed over a million people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agencies taking part in the event included GO Health, Genesee\/Orleans Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Erie County Health Department, Spectrum Human Services, The Recovery Station, Wyoming County Mental Health, Fidelis Care, Rochester Regional Healthy, Cornell Cooperative Extension and Horizon Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOW Opioid Task Force Coordinator Christen Ferraro said the Old County Courthouse will be lit up on Aug. 31 and signs commemorating awareness day will be placed in the front of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mike Pettinella GCASA Publicist Over the 12 months prior to September of 2020, 90,237 in the United States \u2013 a 30 percent increase from the previous year. In 2017, 585,000 worldwide. In 2020, 15 in Genesee County and seven in Orleans County. Those figures represent the number of people \u2026<\/p>\n

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