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International Overdose Awareness Day is Wednesday, August 31st.
This is a day to remember those who were lost while also bringing awareness to the pandemic that has swept the world. This is the world’s annual campaign to end overdose behavior while working to remember (without stigma) those who were taken too soon and acknowledge the grief of families and friends left without their loved ones. International Overdose Awareness Day was started in 2001 by S.J. Finn who was managing a needle and syringe program with the Salvation Army before beginning the campaign.
Since 2001, the day has grown and is recognized in over forty countries while working together to educate and help those stuck in the vicious cycle of drug addiction and substance abuse. In recognition of this day, people wear purple to show their support and help foster open, informative discussions about substance abuse disorders and drug overdoses. Addiction is a disease that touches families in every community. The epidemic is national but also very personal to those affected and touched by this poorly understood disease. As a nation, our population needs a strong and joint response to the overdose pandemic, which has been a bit minimized by the other pandemic.
Funds need to be raised and more effort made to reach out and work on the underlying causes that allow this pandemic to infect and then spread so wildly. Also, the nation needs to do a much better job at defining what the difference between alcohol-induced and alcohol-related really is.
The studied, deliberate, and unforgivable lying of Senator Ron Johnson.
It was hard to listen to this deflated senator prior to the rousing election drivel his campaign is putting out, but now it’s worse. The senator was all over his opponents with respect to the sky-high gasoline prices and how it was all Biden’s and the democrat’s fault. That was part of his ad campaign, primarily paid for by Wisconsin’s over-the-top right-winger named Uline before gas prices plummeted. Now gas prices are down because “people are driving less.” Really.
Then there’s the quick-change routine wherein, all of a sudden, the senator was all but ‘born a poor black child.’ How he struggled to build his family business as if he inherited nothing! He grew the business all right, with a hefty one million dollar a year tax credit nearly every damned year he was in office. He believes, and stated, that Wisconsin has enough jobs, so the jobs sent abroad to his crony’s ‘business’ firms in China are meaningless to such an over-employed state. He promised to not run again, just like Mayor Bloomberg did as mayor of New York, but as soon as he was in office, he broke that promise because the people needed him so badly. Identical self-serving drivel that Johnson is peddling.
Will Wisconsin wake up and dump one of the guys fully responsible for the Foxconn theft and debacle? Will Wisconsin still vote for someone who robbed the state of high-speed rail? Will Wisconsin vote for a man who somehow still believes that Trump is the rightful president? It will be most interesting to see if Wisconsin will awaken from its slumbering in avoidance of reality…or not, in November. sin wake up and dump one of the guys fully responsible for the Foxconn theft and debacle? Will Wisconsin still vote for someone who robbed the state of high-speed rail? Will Wisconsin vote for a man who somehow still believes that Trump is the rightful president? It will be most interesting to see if Wisconsin will awaken from its slumbering in avoidance of reality…or not, in November.
