Throughout the month of September, groups across the state and area have been recognizing 'National Recovery Month'.

Nadia Klekamp is the Associate Director of Community Health at Chestnut Health Systems and indicates COVID was challenging for everyone and the trend of overdoses throughout and after the pandemic has been alarming.

The effort to the widespread reduction of overdoses, addiction, and recovery is going to start with awareness. Klekamp indicates this will be a grassroots effort and will take local groups and organizations to get those messages out.

Chestnut Health Systems will also be a part of that process and Klekamp explains a lot of what they can do beyond a program perspective is offer tools and resources for organizations in their efforts to educate their communities.

Throughout September, there have been many training opportunities for NARCAN. If you missed any of those, Chestnut has staff that can come in and train your staff or organization on this life-saving drug. 

Get more information at chestnut.org. You can also follow along with Chestnut Health Systems on Facebook.