MARQUETTE, MI-- Residents can learn about the opiate epidemic in the U.P. and how they can help fight it during a public forum in Marquette later this month.
The Cost of Addiction will bring together an interdisciplinary panel that will discuss how opiate abuse impacts the community.
Rachel Pieske is the Foundation Prevention Specialist at Great Lakes Recovery Center. She says there are numerous ways in which opioid addiction affects Marquette County as a whole.
“Some of the ways are communal, in costs related to things like law enforcement and law; judicial costs; some of the costs are in health care or mental health care; and then costs also range into the familial zone,” she says.
Forum panelists will come from the Marquette County Substance Abuse Coalition, Pathways CMH, Campus Pharmacy, and other organizations.
The program takes place Wednesday, January 18 at 6 p.m. at the Marquette Alternative High School.
