Brandon Mayor Jeff Fawcett was joined at city hall by toxic drug supply awareness advocates as he signed a proclamation marking Sunday as National Overdose Awareness Day.

“Each death represents a human being, a member of a family and a member of a community,” Fawcett read from the proclamation on Friday. “We wish to support those who use substances by providing evidence-based policies and wide access to many forms of treatment.”

Antoinette Gravel-Ouellette, who is the national program co-ordinator with Moms Stop The Harm, said the proclamation signing left her feeling “tender” and added the stigma around substance use needs to stop.

She said people are going to use substances, but it’s when they don’t know what’s in them that they die. She said other substances need to be regulated the

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