Overdose Awareness Week and Your Workplace
During Overdose Awareness Week, we come together to remember the lives lost to overdose, support those still struggling, and take meaningful action toward change. This observance culminates on August 31 with International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD), which is a global campaign dedicated to ending overdose, breaking stigma, and fostering hope.
While overdose often brings to mind events outside of work, the reality is sobering: overdoses happen in workplaces, too. In 2023 alone, there were 512 overdose deaths in U.S. workplaces—accounting for 9.7% of all occupational injury deaths that year.1...