International Overdose Awareness Day
Save the date for International Overdose Awareness Day 2026
We want to thank the team that is partnering with us to make this happen: PreventEd, SOUL: Surviving Overdose & Understanding Loss, Saint Louis County Department of Public Health and MoNetwork.
On August 31 PreventEd, SOUL, MONet, And the St. Louis County Department of Public Health and H.E.A.L. are hosting an event to observe International Overdose Awareness Day, a day to remember the lives lost to substance overdose with a walk in Kirkwood, Missouri. The event and starting point of the walk will be Concordia Lutheran Church, 505 S. Kirkwood Rd., St. Louis, MO 63122. We will gather at 5:30PM and the tribute to lives lost will begin at 6PM. The walk will immediately follow. The walk is about 1.4 miles and is relatively flat. If you don’t want to walk, feel free to bring a lawn chair and watch the beginning and end of the walk. In addition to the event the McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center, the Wheel and courtyard at Union Station, Stifel Theater and the Enterprise will be lighting up purple for IOAD.
There will be Narcan, Fentanyl Test Strips, Deterra Bags, bracelets, window stickers, locking bags and other resources at the event.
Bring a pair of lightly used shoes to be set up as a display of all the empty shoes representing lives lost. The shoes will be donated after the event.
Wear your IOAD shirt or bright colored clothing and feel free to bring a sign or picture of your loved one to carry while you walk. There will be signs available to carry if you need one. No profanity or negative messages on your clothing or signs, please.
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