Overdose Awareness And Recovery Event To Be Held At TD Bank Ballpark – Patch

SOMERSET COUNTY, NJ — The Somerset County and Warren County Prosecutor’s Offices are collaboratively hosting Operation Helping Hand (OHH)’s 2nd Annual Overdose Awareness and Recovery Event on Saturday at TD Bank Ballpark.

The event is being held ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day -a global event on Aug. 31 to raise awareness of overdosing, and to honor those who have lost their lives to the disease of addiction.

“The Counties of Somerset and Warren acknowledge that those affected by substance use disorders and overdose are our neighbors, family and friends. They deserve our compassion and support as they navigate the road to recovery or grieve the loss of a loved one,” according to Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald and Warren County Prosecutor James L. Pfeiffer.

This event is in collaboration with the following: Community in Crisis (Bernardsville), EmPower
Somerset – Pioneer Family Success Center (Somerville), Parent to Parent Addiction Services (Washington), Prevention Links (Roselle), Recovery Centers of America, Somerset County Department of Human Services (Somerville), Somerset Treatment Services (Somerville), and The Greater Raritan Workforce Board – Pathways to Recovery (Somerville).

In addition, New Jersey State Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services has donated naloxone kits to be distributed on game day to those in the community that are at-risk of experiencing an opioid overdose or will be in a position to administer the opioid antidote to a person experiencing an opioid overdose.

Funding for the OHH program comes from a grant provided by the New Jersey Office of the Coordinator for Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies (NJ CARES), the Office within the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General that coordinates the addiction-fighting efforts of the Department of Law and Public Safety relating to opioid epidemic.

Somerset County residents are asked that anyone seeking addiction services can reach out to OHH by calling 908-393-8888, or the Somerset County OHH website at https://bit.ly/somersetohh; or emailing ohh@co.somerset.nj.us to be connected to services.