No city, no person is immune from the effects of the opioid addiction, including Cincinnati. The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County is hosting an interactive exhibition, AntiOD: Reclaiming Our City, about the opioid crisis in Cincinnati and what we can do together as a community to save lives from overdose.
In AntiOD: Reclaiming Our City the audience is presented with four components to take a role in the crisis:
ACT: What can you do to save a life from overdose?
SHARE: What is your story related to addition and/or overdose?
LEARN: What is the opioid crisis reality in our city?
KNOW: What can we learn from individuals touched by the crisis?
The exhibit runs through June 13 in the Atrium of the South Building. A closing reception is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. The reception is open to the public.
“The goals of the exhibition are to promote harm reduction through education, learn about access and administration of Narcan and de-stigmatize addiction,” said Dr. Claudia B. Rebola, associate professor of industrial design at the University of Cincinnati. “It is about switching from ‘them, crisis, stigma, fear’ to “we, access, education, empowerment.”
Rebola co-curated and co-designed AntiOD: Reclaiming Our City with Matt Wizinsky, associate professor at DAAP. She was honored for her work on bettering the community through design by the State of Ohio's Drug Abuse Heroin Unit May 16 at Great American Ball Park before the Cincinnati Reds vs. Chicago Cubs game.
For more information, call 513-369-6900 or visit www.CincinnatiLibrary.org.
