Today is “Overdose Awareness” day. All too often, when we discuss deaths due to overdose, we treat the victim as a statistic. Instead, we need to continue to focus on the fact that the individual died as the result of an opioid-related overdose, that the parents, partner, children of the individual lost a loved one, and that the death was preventable. Read more from United Way Simcoe Muskoka CEPO Brian Shelley in his latest blog post: https://lnkd.in/gTXH98dw #overdoseawareness #opiodepidemic #cepoblog #CEOblog