Drug overdose is an issue surrounded by stigma that makes it difficult for family and friends of victims to grieve properly. Recently we recognized International Overdose Awareness Day. The event is designed for people touched by overdose to publicly mourn the loss of loved ones together without guilt or shame and remember the lives that could have been saved. The stigma that surrounds overdose might make it seem like a problem for weak, poor, severely disadvantaged people or celebrities, but that is not true. The victims of this problem are among your friends, your family, and could even be you. Yet people do not seem to recognize that it is a growing crisis among us with drug overdose deaths outnumbering those of car crashes. Each day, 44 Americans die from overdose and most deaths are from opioids, your commonly prescribed painkillers. In the past 15 years, the sales of prescription drugs...

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