Project Opioid Initiative

With the tidal wave of the coronavirus waning, our community is beginning to see the debris left behind on our shores. It is our responsibility, our duty, as people to confront and address the tragedies we surely face ahead should we not act before more lives are lost to the opioid crisis. The surging Overdose Crisis, fueled by opioids, is rivaling COVID-19 as our lifetime’s deadliest epidemic. The numbers are staggering; the biggest debris left on our shores will be the unprecedented lives lost to opioid-related overdoses. According to the CDC, more than 81,000 Americans died of an overdose in the 12 months leading up to May 2020 mid-pandemic – the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period.

Project Opioid was established to amplify the voices of the lives that have been lost and the families who are left in its aftermath. Our mission is simple, reduce overdoses and related deaths that are caused or contributed by opioids.

Project Opioid is a public-private-nonprofit partnership formed to save lives through a collaborative community model bridging faith, business, and philanthropic leaders with those already on the frontlines of this crisis: our criminal justice, healthcare, schools, and emergent service providers.