AKRON: Heroin is Killing My Town, a grassroots effort dedicated to fighting the heroin epidemic, will hold a call-to-action and candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Lock 3.
Billy Pfaff, the founder of the Pinehurst, Mass.-based coalition, encourages attendees to wear purple and bring photographs of people they’ve lost to heroin during the vigil.
Pfaff’s goals are to open up more hospital beds for emergency detox, get Akron police to carry Narcan and increase the size of the drug unit and convince Ohio governor John Kasich to declare a state of emergency.
Pfaff started a petition to declare a state of emergency, hoping the city will be able to receive federal funding for the large amount of deaths in the state.
Eight hundred people on the event’s Facebook page said they would attend, while another 1,400 said they were interested.
“Ohio is deadly right now,” Pfaff said. “We need to work together, not work against each other.”
For more about the organization, visit https://www.facebook.com/heroiniskillingmytown/home.
