On Thursday Larry and I attended Lake county's first Narcan training session. The session was geared to help community members learn effective ways to administer naloxone nasal spray to help reverse drug overdoses. Mr. Luis Garcia on the left is a retired firefighter and is going around Florida providing the training and free Narcan. He personally has used it to save 11 lives.
Officers from Clermont and Mascotte Police departments took the training.
It was through Celebrate Recovery that we knew about the training. Be Free Lakeland and North Lake Celebrate Recovery team helped with putting on this event. Knowledge plus Hope can help fight the Opioid epidemic.
Larry and I went to the town hall meeting.
There were 140 in attendance. Each of the panel members shared how opioid have touched them personally and professionally.
Mary Marcuccio is a family consultant who deals with families dealing with a loved one's substance abuse.
Michael Graves is the Public Defender for the Fifth Judicial Circuit.
Sheriff Peyton Grinnell is the sheriff of Lake county since 2016 and worked in the sheriff office for over 20 years.
Natalie is a retail pharmacist in the Leesburg area.
Representative Jennifer Sullivan serves as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 31st District. She brought out the point how drug use is linked to a lot of the sex trafficking.
Opioid addiction can happen to anyone at any age, at any income level. It affects teens, adults, senior citizens and unborn babies. We lost 58,000 people in the Vietnam Conflict. We lost 72,000 people last year to opioid. 140 people die every day in this country from opioid.
All agreed that the government and jail is not the answer, Faith and faith based programs is where help and change is most successful.
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