Participants walk the trail around Highland’s Wicker Park during the 2nd Annual We Fight Together Drug Poisoning and Overdose Awareness run/walk on May 11, 2024. “I can’t save my child, but I can save someone else’s,” one Highland mom, Rachel Carlisle said, after she shared her story to hundreds of people in Wicker Park on Saturday.
“For me, it’s only been two and a half years since I lost Sarah,” Stovall said. “The grief of losing a child is horrifying. The fact that we’re not alone doesn’t make it easier, but it makes it less lonely. And this helps show we are not alone.” Overdose deaths tied to fentanyl increased by 279% nationwide from 2016 to 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control. In a 12-month period ending August 2022, 107,000 people died from fentanyl-related overdose deaths, data shows.
“It’s amazing to see the amount of support and how much love and togetherness is here today,” Carlisle said. “To see how these families have support from their communities, and for people to talk about it. By looking at this turnout, it shows that people need to talk about it. The more we are joined together, the louder we are, and we will be heard. Things need to start changing, and that’s what this shows.
Around 400 people attended the event at Wicker Park, some of whom had similar experiences of grief and struggle.
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