Posts Tagged ‘Overdose Awareness Day’

“Hello, sir. What do you need today?” Braunz Courtney says with a welcoming smile, standing comfortably behind a buffet of sterile syringes and pipes.

“I need some medium sharps,” his client Vernon, 64, responds.

Savannah O’Neil says, for her, knowing someone who has battled an opioid addiction started with a family member. Most recently, she says, one of her friends had a stint at sobriety, but fatally overdosed on a combination of prescription opioids and benzodiazepine.