Overdose Awareness Exhibition

Please join Summit Artspace, the Summit County Board of Public Health, and Summit Recovery Hub for a special temporary exhibition revolving around themes of overdose. Following, there will be a walk through downtown Akron to show support for community members who have been impacted by overdose loss, for a time to remember and commit to reducing overdose in Summit County

Opening Event:
Thursday, August 31, 4 – 6 p.m.

In honor of Overdose Awareness Day, visual artists in Summit County and contiguous counties created artworks about their personal experience with addiction and overdose – in honor of a loved one who passed from an overdose or as an ally for those who have struggled through these experiences.

International Overdose Awareness Day is the world’s largest annual campaign to:

– end overdose
– remember, without stigma, those who have died
– acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind

The campaign raises awareness of overdose, which is one of the world’s worst public health crises, and stimulates action and discussion about evidence-based overdose prevention and drug policy. The campaign also acknowledges the profound grief felt by families and friends whose loved ones have died or suffered permanent injury from a drug overdose.

This exhibition is sponsored by Summit County Public Health, The Opiate and Addiction Task Force, and the Summit County ADM Board