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Why Should I Care?
Response from Members of Our Community
| We need to help all members of our community | We need to support and keep our community safe | We Care |
| You may be able to save a life of a perfect stranger | Someone you know may use opioids | Overdose are accidental and addiction is a disease. Just because someone is sick, doesn't mean they should die. |
| Big picture of saving lives | Harm reduction | Its an addiction that individual needs help |
| I watched drugs and alcohol destroy my family and my childhood | Drugs are bad, okay! | I'm in control of me |
| It is a parasite that feeds on every single aspect of our communities and society | It effects individual, families, communities, and society as a whole | People are dying and they don't have to |
| I care! | As created in God's image; damages His work | Have seen and heard too many negative fatal impact from drug |
| Empathy and compassion for other humans | For the health and wellbeing of our communities | To create a future that is drug-free |
| Someone's loved one does | Our job is to keep lives safe | My family depends on the future. Their safety it's the community I grew up in |
| Someone you know and love does use drugs | We are losing young people due to this disease | I care about my community |
| Everyone deserves someone to care about them | It takes a team approach to make a positive change | To keep communities safe |
| It's the right thing to do | Overdoses Happen | I may have a family member or a friend that does |
| I want to help my community be safer | Death affects everybody or community | Overdose can be prevented |
| Addiction doesn't have to be a death sentence | I want my community to be healthy | I want my kids to be safe |
| I know the pain of losing someone to addiction | People are dying while family suffering | Adverse aspect on the community |
| Financial impact on the community | They have detrimental effects on job performance | You can have the ability to save someone's life |
| Anyone can overdose | You don't need to take drugs to overdose (Touching something, taking something laced) | They can lead to dependency and addiction, negatively impacting relationship and family |
| They can be costly, and has financial strain and difficulties | While growing up, encouraged to be positively active and involved (No time for risk) | They can lead to dependency and addiction, negatively impacting relationship and family |
| Because drugs use affect everyone |