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International Overdose Awareness Day 2023

International Overdose Awareness Day is August 31. Join in the large-scale distribution of naloxone (Narcan) at locations throughout Rhode Island from noon to 4 p.m. As part of this day, three separate vigils will be hosted around the state. Learn more about events happening on International Overdose Awareness Day.

If you can’t make it out to any events, you can get naloxone for free. Learn more about how you can get free naloxone.

Naloxone distribution events around the state:

#EndOverdoseRI by joining us in our state’s largest naloxone distribution event. Last year, Rhode Island distributed over 3,000 kits and this year the goal is 4,000 kits.
 

Central Falls

  • 7-Eleven (603 Hunt St.)
  • CVS (309 Broad St.)
  • Dollar Tree (361 Dexter St.)
  • Progreso Latino (626 Broad St.)

Coventry

  • Walmart (650 Centre Of New England Blvd.)

Cranston

  • Cranston Farmers Market (Bain Track at the Hugh B. Bain Middle School, 135 Gansett Ave)
  • CVS (681 Reservoir Ave.)
  • CVS (1776 Broad St.)
  • Price Rite (1415 Elmwood Ave.)
  • Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) (600 New London Ave.)
  • Stop & Shop Plaza (204 Garfield Ave.)

Cumberland

  • Stop & Shop (70 Mendon Rd.)

East Providence

  • East Providence Library (41 Grove Ave.)
  • Fire Station 1 (913 Broadway)

Johnston

  • CVS (1400 Hartford Ave.)
  • Walmart Plaza (1776 Plainfield Pike)

Lincoln

  • Lincoln Woods State Park

Middletown

  • Hope Recovery Center Of Newport County (294 Valley Rd.)

Narragansett

  • Narragansett Town Beach

Newport

  • Newport Beach Walk at Easton’s Beach (Walk of Remembrance Vigil starts at 4:30 p.m.)
  • 50 Washington St.

North Providence

  • Shaw’s Plaza (15 Smithfield Rd.)

Pawtucket

  • Colleyer Park
  • CVS (425 East Ave.)
  • CVS (835 Newport Ave.)
  • Downtown Pawtucket (Mobile Outreach Team)
  • Family Dollar (305 Armistice Blvd.)
  • Price Rite (465 Lonsdale Ave.)
  • Stop & Shop (368 Cottage St.)

Providence

  • Aldi (539 Smith St.)
  • America’s Food Basket (863 Broad St.)
  • Amos House (460 Pine St.)
  • Conlan Memorial Park (Messer Street)
  • CVS (960 Broad St.)
  • India Point Park
  • Kennedy Plaza
  • Mcdonald’s Plaza (736 Branch Ave.)
  • Price Rite (325 Valley St.)
  • Smith Hill Stop & Go (545 Chalkstone Ave.)
  • Starbucks (218 Thayer St.)
  • Walgreens (533 Elmwood Ave.)
  • Walgreens (335 Prairie Ave.)
  • Walmart (51 Silver Spring St.)

Wakefield

  • Bagelz of Wakefield (90 Pershing Ave.)
  • CVS (11 Main St.)

Warren

  • Bike Path (Asylum Road)
  • Town Hall (514 Main St.)

Warwick

  • Oakland Beach
  • Stop & Shop (2470 Warwick Ave.)

Westerly

  • Westerly Hope Recovery Center (55 Beach St.)
  • Westerly Library (44 Broad St.)
  • Wilcox Park (vigil walk starting at 5:30 p.m. with the Memorial Walk)

West Warwick

  • Arctic Gazebo (Vigil 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.)
  • Thundermist Health Center (186 Providence St.)

Woonsocket

  • Community Care Alliance (800 Clinton St.)
  • CVS (450 Clinton St.)
  • Discovery House (1625 Diamond Hill Rd.)
  • Thundermist Health Center (450 Clinton St.)