A 28-day overdose awareness calendar
Use one idea each day, repeat the actions that help, or build your own sequence. The point is not to fill a feed; it is to widen access to care.
- 01Put naloxone where people can reach it.
Tell the people around you where it is and check the product instructions.
- 02Save the CDC response guide.
Make reliable emergency information available before an emergency.
- 03Learn the language your community prefers.
Ask what words feel accurate, respectful, and useful.
- 04Share a treatment locator.
Send FindTreatment.gov to someone who wants options without a lecture.
- 05Invite a peer voice into planning.
Budget for expertise and make decision-making real.
- 06Check one local resource.
Call or visit it so public information is not built on a guess.
- 07Host a ten-minute conversation.
Ask what people would want a bystander to know.
- 08Make your event easier to enter.
Review seating, bathrooms, transit, language, noise, and mobility needs.
- 09Make a grief-safe plan.
Offer a quiet space, content notes, and a way to step out without explanation.
- 10Learn where local supplies come from.
Connect with a harm-reduction or community-health partner.
- 11Check your emergency contacts.
Make sure staff and volunteers know who to call and where to meet responders.
- 12Ask a trusted person what support means.
Do not assume that treatment, abstinence, or disclosure is the only goal.
- 13Read one harm-reduction source.
Learn from organizations led by and accountable to people who use drugs.
- 14Make an FAQ for your community.
Answer the practical questions people ask before they attend or reach out.
- 15Offer a quiet way to participate.
Make listening, writing, remote attendance, and leaving early acceptable.
- 16Share a tribute option.
Let people remember privately or through an established memorial pathway.
- 17Train the people who greet visitors.
Hospitality includes knowing where support and emergency information are located.
- 18Add a support card to your event materials.
Include current crisis, treatment, grief, and harm-reduction pathways.
- 19Publish clear contact boundaries.
Say when someone will respond and where urgent help belongs.
- 20Compensate lived-experience contributors.
Respect expertise as labor, not decoration.
- 21Audit one public link.
Check that the destination still works and describes current availability.
- 22Ask what should continue.
Invite participants to name one useful practice worth carrying forward.
- 23Invite a local partner.
Connect with a library, school, health department, peer group, or community center.
- 24Plan aftercare for organizers.
Schedule a check-in for speakers, volunteers, and people carrying grief.
- 25Share one source, not ten slogans.
Make the next action clear and give people somewhere trustworthy to go.
- 26Make a private commitment.
Choose a step you can take even when no one is watching.
- 27Thank the people doing care work.
Name the quiet labor that keeps a resource, room, or relationship available.
- 28Choose one action that continues.
Turn awareness into a habit, partnership, resource, or policy change.
Keep the calendar grounded.
Use current public-health guidance for facts and community organizations for lived knowledge. Confirm local availability before publishing.
A month can lead somewhere.
Pair planning with practical response resources and grief-aware remembrance.